- Have you got annoying background noise in your calls,
in your interviews or any microphone recording like this?
Well, in this video,
I'm reviewing an awesome app
that will clean all of that out for you
and it works in almost any situation.
Hey, it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video,
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So, let's jump into it.
Now, we've all heard of noise canceling headphones
and other noise canceling devices,
but what about a program
that removes your background noise in real time
while you're recording,
or while you're on a call on your Mac or PC.
Well, there's now an app for that
and it's called Krisp,
and it is amazing.
It's an absolute game changer for any calls, any interviews,
or for recording anywhere where you've got background noise.
So right now I'm just at a coffee shop,
obviously you can hear the background noise.
Typical coffee shop,
but this one even has a swimming pool
in the background as well,
and there's lots of kids and people playing in it.
So the background noise here is probably pretty loud,
but this Krisp app works so well that literally
with the click of a button,
we can remove most of that background noise.
So what is Krisp and how does it work?
Well essentially, it's an app that you install
on your Mac or on your PC,
and it acts as a filter, processing your audio
either on the way in through your microphone,
or even on your way out through your speakers.
And not only can you process your audio
while you're recording, if you're on a call
or an interview with someone
and the background noise is loud on their end,
you can actually remove their background noise
and process their audio on your end as well.
So let's say the way that it works is to analyze
your audio using AI technology
to search for and analyze for human voices,
and to recognize human voices,
and obviously remove everything that isn't.
Another thing that's really important to note here,
that this is done locally on your computer,
so it's not sending your audio out,
off to the cloud somewhere.
This is done locally on your computer,
and it's also done in realtime,
so there is next to no delay, or no lag,
or none that I've noticed, it is amazing.
So we'll jump across now
and show you how this works.
So the first thing you need to do is,
in any application that you actually want to use Krisp for,
instead of selecting your normal microphone,
you can see here, External Microphone,
what you want to select is the Krisp Microphone,
so that it's going to be using the Krisp application,
and again the beauty of this is,
it's going to work in pretty much any application
where a normal microphone would work.
And then what we need to do is go over to the Krisp app,
on the Mac it's at the top here.
Go down to where it says your microphone,
for this case I'm using External Microphone,
I'm gonna mute that noise and hit mute,
and that audio is then, being analyzed,
and the background noise has then been removed.
Now I do wanna note here as well,
that as this does an amazing job
at removing general background noise and music,
if there is someone that is standing close to you,
or a voice that is able to pick up,
it may confuse that with yours
and then maybe some audio that's
slipping through the cracks,
but for the most part it does an amazing job.
So that's how you do it with your microphone,
but if you want to mute the incoming audio
from someone else on a call or an interview with you,
then likewise you come over here to Krisp,
then come down here to speaker,
select your external audio,
in this case I would pick my Macbook Pro speakers,
and I would hit mute noise
and their audio is now going
to be filtered for me as well.
Obviously it's not gonna change on their end,
this is just on my computer.
Now I'll give you a couple of different examples now,
so you can see just how powerful this is.
Okay to really show you what this thing can do,
I am in a coffee shop now,
it's gonna be really hard to hear me,
they're actually brewing their
own coffee hear in the background.
I'm gonna go ahead and switch on Krisp,
and see how much of this gets removed.
So I'm going to the top here
and go over to Krisp,
and just go to Mute Noise.
So if I keep talking here now,
you would see the background noise, hopefully,
has been cleaned up considerably,
and this is just with the built
in microphone on the Macbook Pro.
I'll do another test with a headset on,
because if we are going to be making calls
or recording in a noisy place,
it is gonna be better if you're using
some sort of headset microphone
or any sort of microphone really,
but it just shows you how powerful this app actually is.
Okay I switched over to the headset now,
probably still picking up an
absolute ton of background noise,
but this is the microphone that
you're hearing me through right now.
Gonna come up here and switch on Krisp,
and let's see how much noise this actually takes out.
So the way this works is actually looking
and analyzing for a human voice,
and then it is trying to amplify that,
so from time to time you may
hear other people talking in the background,
or we're sitting in a coffee shop,
there's other people here too.
It can sometimes pick up little bits
and pieces of their audio as well,
so it's not 100% perfect,
but it's pretty damn good.
In regards to pricing there are three plans
that you can choose from.
There is a Free plan
which will let you listen without noise,
so you can clean up someone else's audio,
but not your own.
Their Pro plan is the one that I would say
that most people are going to be interested in,
and that goes for $3.33 per month if you're paying annually.
And that will both let you clean
up your audio input and output,
so you speaking and someone else speaking,
and it also works on three devices.
Up from that is their Teams plan
which is $6.67 per user, per month,
and it's obviously really aimed at working with teams,
and having multiple users and that kind of stuff,
but for the most part I would say that
most people are going to be looking at the Pro plan.
Which for what this does, is just crazy, ridiculously cheap.
So this app is gonna be perfect for you,
whether you're recording a podcast,
whether you're doing coaching calls or zoom calls,
or any sort of recording or communication
through your Mac or your PC
where you may have some background noise.
Now obviously it doesn't need to be
as worst case as this,
it can be used just to clean up
the background noise from a fan,
or an air conditioner that you might have,
or a noisy computer, it will work with all of that as well,
but it also works incredibly well
if you've got crying kids in the background,
or traffic noise,
or constantly got airplanes flying overhead.
So at that price point, I do think this is a no brainer,
and it should be installed in most computers.
Now this is something that I was really skeptical of
when I first installed it and first started using it,
because how good can a computer
be to remove background noise.
I was totally blown away,
and, yeah, this thing is now installed
on every computer that I own,
and it will be in the foreseeable future as well.
Now as I said earlier, there's two things
that you do need to be aware of.
The first is that, if you do have other people
speaking really loud around you,
that may mess with it a little bit
as it's trying to analyze their voice as well as yours,
so ideally you kind of want to
be the only one speaking in the area,
and it's gonna be used to remove the background noise.
The other thing to be aware of though,
is that there is a noticeable drop
in the audio recording quality once it's been processed.
It is definitely not a deal breaker,
but it's not as sharp or as crisp
as it would be if it was directly
recorded without that filtering,
but you've got the background noise removed,
so I would say that's far more important,
it's going to make it easier for people to listen
and engage with your content,
it's gonna make that a much better experience
for people you are communicating with.
So I know I've said it a few times,
but I am so pumped on this app,
and I think it is an absolute game changer,
and this is one of my top recommended apps
or programs right now.
So now you've been introduced to,
and you're up to speed with Krisp,
but if you're looking to remove the background
noise of a video that you've already recorded,
then check out the video linked on screen
that will take you through the process
on how you can remove things like wind noise,
and background noise from your regular videos as well,
and I'll see you in the next one.