Microsoft and Teams

Adding somenewand novel capabilities to the conferencing method.  Have used it and others since their inception.  Well done.   They also provide some usage numbers.


How Microsoft Teams will use AI to filter out typing, barking, and other noise from video calls
 By Emil Protalinsky in VentureBeat

Last month, Microsoft announced that Teams, its competitor to Slack, Facebook’s Workplace, and Google’s Hangouts Chat, had passed 44 million daily active users. The milestone overshadowed its unveiling of a few new features coming “later this year.” Most were straightforward: a hand-raising feature to indicate you have something to say, offline and low-bandwidth support to read chat messages and write responses even if you have poor or no internet connection, and an option to pop chats out into a separate window. But one feature, real-time noise suppression, stood out — Microsoft demoed how the AI minimized distracting background noise during a call. ...