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Questions tagged [noise-cancelling]

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Does this exist: software for noise cancellation

I'm aware that the best option for noise cancelling is to buy myself a pair of noise cancelling headphones... But is there any software available that would use the pc mic and headphones to block background noise?
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Are Noise-Canceling headphones effective?

I work in a pretty noisy environment, lots of noise near me like the TV and people yelling and talking in really loud voices. It makes it really hard to concentrate and since I can't really move my PC to another part of the house I was thinking of…
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OCR for numbers with gray noisy background

I tried to run OCR on multiple scanned sheets with numbers like this image (All with same background, digits only): But all trials failed! I tried offline OCRs: gocr, tesseract and couple of online OCRs; but all TOTALLY failed! What should I do?
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Audio recording background noise

For a long time time I've been trying to get rid of the background noise that appears in every audio recording I make with my computer. Tried different microphones, different sound setting, drivers. Interesting fact - the volume of this sound is…
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ffmpeg reduce background noise

Audacity has a great noise reduction process that I've found works very well: select a "quiet" sample section of audio, choose Effects>Noise Reduction>Get Noise Profile. Then select whole stream, choose Noise Reduction again, click Ok. I assume it…
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how to find a device that will block out all noise

I am looking for heaphones/earplugs or any other device which will cancel out all the outside noise. I DO NOT want to listen to music/white noise/nature sounds or anything else. I want perfect silence in my ears. I have tried the following : I…
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Better microphone noise suppression in Windows 10?

Having acquired a new and supposedly good microphone (ModMic), I noticed that I'm still hearing a lot of noise in the recording - about as bad as with my old cheap microphone. I now think the reason is the quality of the sound card (it's the…
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Software to remove hiss noise from the videos

I am looking for a software that can edit hiss noise from my videos. Please do not suggest audio software, I'm looking for video formats like avi files.
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How do I get rid of fan or hard disk noise through headphones?

I've recently bought Sennheiser HD-215 headphones to replace Senheiser PC Headphones. With the new headphones I hear a lot of fan or hard disk noise coming from the headphones themselves. The older headphones had a little bit on the cord with a…
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Best way to clean up over-compressed audio with a clean sample in Audacity?

I have an audio file, which sounds a little muffled due to compression (it's not very bad however). I want to clean it up as much as possible with Audacity or similar (free) software. I have a high quality sample of other parts of that audio, can…
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Floppy disk makes noise when refreshing my computer

When I refresh my computer, or each time I navigate from local disks back to my computer, my floppy disk driver makes a loud noise, and its green led blinks. I'd like to stop it from making noise, however, I don't want to disable it (soft or…
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Support on Windows for Sony noise-canceling in-ear earphones

I have these Sony noise-canceling in-ear earphones (model number: mdr-nc31e): They came with my Sony Xperia Z2 phone. On the Z2 they kind of work. I can't hear my colleges talking if I plug them in (without even playing music and that's great).…
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Live noise-filter on line-in

I'm running the following setup: Xbox 360 is hooked up to my (PC) screen via HDMI/DVI converter. Because the Xbox has no dedicated sound output, except for optical S/PIDF, I'm also using the AV/RCA output, namely just the audio, which is connected…
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Noise suppression almost completely muting my microphone

Everything was fine, but I noticed my microphone almost had no volume one day. The problem is noise cancellation. IDK why, but it suddenly started working really weirdly, instead of noise-canceling it just mutes my microphone almost completely. It's…
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How to stop apparent speaker-to-mic sound filtering / noise cancellation?

Background: I have a 2021 Acer Swift 5 running Windows 11 Home. I've been doing some remote tutoring using Facebook Messenger with screen sharing. Sometimes I need to play a video from my computer that the student can hear. The speakers on the…
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