Important:
- We recommend that you turn off noise cancellation in Meet if you use an electrolarynx. Accessibility improvements are in progress in Meet.
- Noise cancellation is on by default for Pexip devices. To disable noise cancellation, refer to Pexip technical documentation.
- If noise cancellation is on for your organisation, it's also on for participants who dial in or use a phone for audio. Learn how to use a phone for audio in a video meeting.
- It's not available when you dial out to add a phone participant to a meeting in progress.
To help you focus during meetings, you can cancel background noise. Meet can remove background noises like typing, a door closing, room echo or construction sound.
- When you share your screen, audio capture won't be affected by noise cancellation.
- Meet cancels non-speech noises.
- Voices from TV or people talking won't be cancelled.
- If you need other sounds in your meeting, like music, turn off noise cancellation.
- To hear all the voices, Meet adjusts the sound.
Requirements to use device-based noise cancellation
Important: Device-based noise cancellation is available for all Workspace and non-Workspace users on most Android phones.
You can use device-based noise cancellation with these Android phones:- Pixel 4 and up
- Samsung S series: S10 and up
- Samsung A series: A02 and up
- Xiaomi Redmi 8 and up
- Xiaomi Note 5 and up
- Oneplus Nord AC2001 and up
- Realme 5 Pro, 6 and up
- Vivo Y15 and up
Noise cancellation in Google Meet may switch between device and cloud to optimise performance.
Tip: For Apple users, consult their website for your device's capabilities.
Requirements to use cloud-based noise cancellation
Cloud-based noise cancellation is available on desktop/laptop, Android and iOS for certain Google Workspace editions.
You can use cloud-based noise cancellation with these Workspace editions:- Business Standard
- Business Plus
- Enterprise Essentials
- Enterprise Standard
- Enterprise Plus
- Education Standard
- Education Plus
- Teaching and Learning Upgrade
- Frontline
- Workspace Individual subscriber
- Google One subscribers with 2 TB or more storage space
Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Frontline, Workspace Individual Subscriber and Google One Subscribers with 2 TB or more storage space: Noise cancellation is on by default.
Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Education Standard and Teaching and Learning Upgrade accounts: Noise cancellation is off by default.
For all Workspace accounts: If the setting is on by default for your organisation in a meeting with other people from outside your organisation, they can also use this feature during that meeting.
Google Workspace with Gemini users: Studio sound replaces noise cancellation. Learn more about studio sound.
Turn on noise cancellation
Noise cancellation can be turned on or off before or during a meeting.
Before a meeting
- Go to meet.google.com
select a meeting.
- Before you join, in the top right-hand corner, click More options
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- Click Audio
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- Turn on Noise cancellation.
- Click Join now.
select a meeting.
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. In a meeting
- At the bottom, click More options
- Click Audio
- Turn on Noise cancellation.
Check how much noise is cancelled on your Google Meet meeting
In the top right-hand corner of the screen, next to your self-preview, look at the ring surrounding the voice indicator . The larger the ring, the more noise is cancelled.
The first time that noise is cancelled, the voice indicator notifies you that noise cancellation has actively removed the noise.
