For some of you out there,
this is going to be without a doubt the most useful
plugin for your live streams.
I'm of course talking about NVIDIA RTX Voice,
the new plugin built by NVIDIA that uses AI technology
to remove distracting background noises
from your live streams.
Things like the noisy clicks from your mechanical keyboard
or maybe it's road noise or an air conditioner,
or just your neighbors doing their third workout of the day.
In this video, we're going to be demonstrating exactly
how well it works by simulating some of these
background noises so you can really see how much
of an effect it has.
A couple of notes before we get started, though.
You do need to have an NVIDIA GPU that has been
specifically built for RTX cards.
But I've seen that there are some workarounds
that people have managed to put together to get it
working with all their 10 series and before cards.
Also, although I'll be going through in this video
how to set up for OBS Studio as well as some other
streaming software, this can be used system-wide.
So you can use it in Discord, you can use it in
Zoom or Skype, for conferencing calls.
I think really the reason that NVIDIA put this out now
is because of this whole COVID situation
and they know a lot of people are working from home
and need this feature.
Now although this software is currently in Beta,
it's been performing super well for me
the last couple of days.
So I'd love to show you some examples.
Let's dive in.
OK, so test time.
Now, you've probably seen some of the clips go viral
across the internet of people doing this with
things like leafblowers, really testing RTX Voice
in some really strange situations.
But I want to be a little bit more realistic with my tests
and actually apply some background noise that you guys
are probably experiencing for your live stream.
So we're going to do three different tests here.
Firstly we're going to do a keyboard typing test,
typing on a mechanical keyboard,
seeing how much of a difference it makes
with RTX Voice on and off.
We're going to be doing a test with some background noise
of like, an air conditioner so this can simulate
either a computer fan being quite noisy next to
your microphone or an air conditioner as we go into summer.
And then finally, we're going to do one with a bit of
background traffic noise in case you live next
to an intersection.
Now with all these tests, I would highly recommend
using a good pair of headphones or studio monitors
to make sure you can hear the differences in both
my voice as we enable and display RTX Voice and
also in the background noise reduction.
So, put the cans on.
So actually I lied. The first test that we're going to do
isn't going to involve any background noise altogether.
I'm just going to test what my voice sounds like
with and without RTX Voice turned on and off.
Because that's kind of important.
I want to know how much affects the actual tone of my voice
because usually these noise suppression plugins,
they kind of make your voice sound very tinny
and I'm keen to hear the results.
So this is obviously me speaking without RTX Voice on.
I'm going to enable it now 100 percent.
And this is now me talking with RTX Voice turned on,
and I'm keen to hear how this sounds differently.
OK, so just listen to that back and it really doesn't
sound like there's much difference between RTX on
and RTX off, which is kind of amazing actually.
Because usually these noise suppression plugins that
you do after the fact in post, they make your
voice sound very tinny.
So it's good to know that when there really isn't much
background noise, RTX Voice isn't really affecting
your voice that much.
The next test is a bit more difficult, and that is
a mechanical keyboard test.
So I'm going to be doing some typing on
my mechanical keyboard, firstly with RTX Voice off.
So I'll start typing now, and hopefully whilst I'm talking,
you can hear some of that keyboard sound coming back
into my microphone.
If I stop speaking but keep typing,
you should be able to hear that faintly in the background.
Let's now enable RTX Voice and see how it affects it.
So RTX Voice is now enabled.
I'm going to start typing in 3, 2, 1. Starting typing.
And it seems like when I'm not speaking,
it's not picking up anything.
But I'd be keen to hear how good of a job it does
when I'm speaking and typing at the same time.
So listening back to that, there definitely was a
difference in the tone of my voice,
which is obviously expected.
But it's nowhere need as bad as I thought it would be.
And it clearly did a very good job of removing the
background noise of me typing, especially when I
wasn't speaking.
There was still some faint rumblings of my typing
when I was speaking, which is obviously a harder test.
But I was really quite impressed, especially when I
wasn't talking, you couldn't hear the keyboard noise at all.
For the next test, I'm going to be playing the sound
of an air conditioner through my speakers here,
to see exactly how much that affects it.
Because I think this is really a very common use case,
especially for people living in hotter countries
than the UK.
As we go into summer, people want to be able to put their
air conditioners on but usually the advice has been
watch your streaming, turn off, just be hot because
the voice is so much more important if you want
to show your live stream.
But with RTX Voice, will it make a difference?
Let's see.
So firstly with RTX Voice turned off,
I'm going to play the air conditioner.
Now I've got that pretty loud,
that's distracting to me even with headphones on.
I can see in the wave form that that is definitely
being picked up when I don't have RTX Voice on.
So let me now enable RTX Voice.
Certainly when I'm not speaking, you can't see that
appearing on the wave form at all.
I'd be keen again to listen back to exactly
how it sounds whilst I am talking if you can still
hear the background noise of the air conditioner fan.
So that I thought was really impressive.
It seems like the white noise kind of examples of a
air conditioner or computer fan really performs well
with RTX Voice.
I think it did better than the keyboard test, personally.
My voice didn't sound quite as natural,
and it did a better job of removing it whilst I was talking.
So the final example we're going to do is oome traffic noise.
If you live next to a busy road with cars going past
the whole time and people talking, this is aimed to
simulate that.
So firstly with RTX Voice off.
And now me speaking over the noise, so you can see
exactly how that affects it.
And next we will now enable RTX Voice.
And now this is me speaking over the traffic noise
with RTX Voice turned on.
So from my point of view, if you're dealing with
any of these kinds of sounds, like loud mechanical
keyboard, or some traffic noise, or some white noise
from a computer fan or an air conditioner,
you should really consider downloading RTX Voice
if you have the capable hardware.
It does come with some performance hit.
I didn't go really into detail here,
I just run a few examples with on and off in certain games.
And I noticed maybe a 5 percent difference in the
frame rate that I was getting.
I wasn't dropping any frames in OBS,
I wasn't having any kind of render lack because it
uses a different part of the chips, not using the
Nvenc encoder.
But I was getting slightly reduced frame rates.
So if you're already maxing out your frame rate and
really pushing your computer to the limits,
you may want to consider exactly how much of the
suppression you use.
If you want to install RTX Voice and use it in your
own live streams or in Discord or anything like that,
it's super simple to install.
Just head to the web site and link to the description,
download and install the program as you would with
any other, and then choose your input device
in the software.
Next, open up whatever application you want to use
RTX Voice in, and just change your input or
microphone voice to NVIDIA RTX Voice.
So my overall suggestions are absolutely you should
be using RTX Voice if you have any kind of background
noise that you want to remove for your live streams and
you have the compatible hardware.
It's still in Beta, so it's going to be improving over time.
But why not just download it, give it a go, see
how it performs.
Does it affect your computer that much, can you still
get high frame rates whilst running it, and how much
does it reduce the background noise for you.
Hopefully this video has been helpful for you guys.
I've got a whole bunch of people in the Discord who are
running tests on their setups with RTX Voice.
So do jump in that if you want to join that conversation,
and I'll catch you in the next video. Peace.
So to start with RTX Voice off.
And now I'm going to enable RTX Voice.