Tech Tuesdays: Denoiser – Shure’s Intellimix Room gets even smarter!

This month, Shure announced an update to their fully software-based DSP platform, Intellimix Room, adding in an entirely new Denoiser feature. As an AI based algorithm, this new feature can help to significantly clean up audio signals within a meeting environment, eliminating noises such as keyboard typing and paper shuffling.

I’m sure you’ve all been on meetings where the above happens, it can be equal parts distracting and infuriating! The AI-based processing was developed in the Shure labs and can significantly reduce the impact of all of these noises. As is common with other Shure processing, the Denoiser can be set to either low, medium or high settings, with high meaning that the DSP is working incredibly hard to remove unwanted noises. As with any processing, the harder you push it the more likely you are to impact on the speech content and intelligibility so critical listening is always suggested. When we are commissioning systems we will typically always start with the low setting and only move up to medium or high processing in particularly difficult spaces or when people are determined to disrupt meetings!