Microsoft 's Teams software is experiencing a large increase in usage, as more and more professionals use it to carry out their daily tasks, due to the coronavirus .
As the software's usage increases day by day, the company has been adding new features to Teams to improve it. One of the most useful features is "real-time noise cancellation," which offers background noise removal during video conferences.
Microsoft communications director Robert Aichner demonstrated this new feature to a group of journalists last week. He reached into a bag of chips while on a conference call and, as expected, the sound was completely muffled.
Microsoft is leveraging AI to make the feature focus on what the person speaking is saying, rather than environmental noise. This means that when implemented in a wide range of environments, you'll be able to hold a video conference from home without worrying about the noises your kids or pets are making on your calls. The feature is expected to arrive in Teams later this year.
In addition to this, Teams will later receive an offline, which will allow you to read and compose messages without the need for an internet. In addition, Teams will soon gain the ability to pop-up conversations in a separate window.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced video conferencing apps to evolve the features they offer users. Recently, Slack , a direct competitor to Teams, began a major redesign of its desktop app .
