NVIDIA Broadcast is an app for Windows that uses AI enhancements for voice and video to enrich your live streams, voice chats, and video conference calls. It is designed to enhance the content you're creating without the need to spend extra money on fancier hardware.
With NVIDIA Broadcast, you can use your current microphone and webcam to make your live streaming efforts seem more professional. The app can remove background noise from audio, add a virtual background, and track movement in the video.
Broadcast offers three main features that include: Auto Framing, Virtual Backgrounds and Blurring, and Noise Removal. Auto Framing uses AI to track your movements and follow you around the room, ensuring you're always in the center of the frame. Virtual Backgrounds and Blurring allows you to adjust the background of your camera's view, adding custom virtual backgrounds and even creating green screen effects without needing an actual green screen. Noise Removal includes an improved version of RTX Voice, which uses AI to actively remove background and environmental noise from your microphone, making your voice clearer and stream more professional.
The company has just updated the software with a beta Eye Contact feature that, like Apple's FaceTime, 'fixes' your gaze to keep it focused on the camera. It preserves your blinks and eye colour, and will even transition between digital and real eyes when you look far enough off-centre. The developers caution that Eye Contact isn't completely ready, as there are "millions" of potential eye colour and lighting scenarios they can't test.
The Eye Contact function may be uncanny at times — even the best presenters tend to look away now and then, so a constant gaze might be unsettling. This could improve your connection with your audience, though, and may be particularly helpful if you're uncomfortable staring directly at the camera.
This software feels like one of the many technologies that emerged during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but it has been refined and polished and is likely to have a lasting impact on video conferencing in the future.
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