Chatting whereas gaming in your Xbox One Series X/S could be enjoyable, however celebration chat members’ poor high quality mics that permit in each barking canine and blaring TV? Not a lot. Now, Microsoft is doing one thing about it by introducing noise suppression to celebration chat within the newest Xbox update. 

“We’ve enabled a new feature which will process your microphone input through a noise suppression step to help produce cleaner audio in your Party Chat session,” it wrote within the Xbox weblog. ” The setting is enabled by default but can be toggled from the dropdown options menu.”

The function seems to be taking a cue from Discord’s Krisp audio filters, together with NVIDIA’s underrated Broadcast tech. Krisp has been a combined bag — whereas the AI filters out most noises (mechanical keyboards, chip crunching) aside from voices, some customers have complained about reduced audio quality.

The Xbox replace additionally consists of numerous fixes for audio, controllers, HDMI CEC, Guide and extra. It’s getting into the alpha skip-ahead ring right now, however ought to roll out extra extensively within the close to future.