Filter out noise from your meeting on Google Meet
Important:
- We recommend 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 organization, 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 meeting, you can cancel background noise. Meet can remove background noises like typing, closing a door, room echo, or construction sound.
- When you share your screen, audio capture isn’t affected by noise cancellation.
- Meet cancels non-speech noises.
- Voices from TV or people talking won't be canceled.
- 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.
- 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 optimize 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.
- 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 2TB 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 2TB 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 settings is on by default for your organization in a meeting with other people outside of your organization, 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 👁 and then
select a meeting. - Before you join, on the top right, click More options 👁 More
👁 and then
Settings 👁 Settings
. - Click Audio 👁 Image
. - Turn on Noise cancellation.
- Click Join now.
In a meeting
- On the bottom, click More options 👁 More
👁 and then
Settings 👁 Settings
. - Click Audio 👁 Image
. - Turn on Noise cancellation.
Check how much noise is canceled on your Google Meet meeting
At the top right corner of the screen, next to your self-preview, look at the ring surrounding the Voice indicator 👁 Image
. The larger the ring, the more noise is canceled.
The first time noise is canceled, the voice indicator notifies you that noise cancellation actively removed the noise.