Free AI strips the dog, the traffic and the coffee grinder out of your calls in real time
Krisp strips barking dogs, traffic and coffee shop noise out of your calls in real time, using AI that runs entirely on your device. Works with Zoom, Teams, Meet and Slack. Free tier covers about an hour of noise-free calls a day.
🤯 WOW! There is a free app that erases barking dogs, traffic, keyboard clacking and the coffee shop espresso machine out of your calls, in real time, while you talk. Your side sounds like a quiet studio even when your world is chaos. It works with Zoom, Teams, Meet and Slack.
The Short Version: Install Krisp, pick it as your microphone, and background noise vanishes from your calls. Free tier covers about an hour a day. Steps below.
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Your neighbor’s leaf blower does not get a vote in your career. Neither does the dog, the doorbell or the kid practicing recorder in the next room. Now you can fire them all.
The tool is Krisp (krisp.ai), and it uses AI to strip background noise out of your microphone in real time. You keep talking normally. The person on the other end hears your voice, clean, like you’re in a silent office. It kills echo and cuts noise on the incoming side, too, and it works in Zoom, Teams, Meet, Slack, anything that uses your mic.
🔇 How to set it up
About five minutes, once.
- Download Krisp from krisp.ai and install it. Works on Windows and Mac.
- Open your video app. In its audio settings, pick Krisp Microphone and Krisp Speaker.
- In the Krisp app, toggle on noise cancellation.
Privacy folks will love this: Krisp does all its processing right on your device. Your audio never ships off to a company’s servers. Time magazine named the tech one of the best inventions in 2020, and it’s only gotten sharper.
🎛️ Check your built-ins first (free, no download)
- Mac or iPhone: Apple already gives you this. During a call, open Control Center > click Mic Mode > pick Voice Isolation. One switch, no app.
- Zoom: Settings > Audio > Suppress Background Noise > High.
- Teams: Settings > Devices > Noise suppression > High.
- Newer Windows PCs: Find Voice Focus under Settings > System > Sound. Click your mic, then Audio enhancements.
Krisp’s edge: It works across every app at once, on Windows and Mac, and cleans the other person’s noise, too.
💵 What’s free and what’s not
The free plan gives you about 60 minutes of noise-free calls a day, plenty for a daily standup or a couple chats. Live on calls all day? Pro runs $8 a month billed annually ($96 up front), or about $16 month to month, and it adds automatic meeting notes.
FYI, on an old laptop, Krisp can push up your processor use and lag a bit. And when it scrubs a sudden loud burst too hard, your voice can go briefly robotic. Small prices for sounding like a pro from your kitchen.
My take? Take the meeting from the porch, the car, the busy cafe. The world stays loud. You sound serene. You were sipping that latte before it was cool.
🎯 Send this to someone who takes calls with a loud dog, loud kids or a loud street.
📱 Text-worthy: A free app called Krisp erases barking dogs, traffic and coffee shop noise from your calls in REAL TIME while you talk. Works with Zoom, Teams, Meet. Pick Krisp Microphone, and you sound like you’re in a studio.