Krisp.ai is an innovative, AI-powered noise cancellation application designed to eliminate unwanted background noise from your voice calls, recordings, and live streams. Whether you’re working from a noisy home office, a bustling café, or participating in a crucial online meeting, Krisp.ai ensures your voice comes through crystal clear, enhancing communication for both you and your listeners. It acts as a virtual microphone and speaker, filtering out everything from barking dogs and keyboard clicks to street noise and children’s chatter, making it an indispensable tool for remote professionals, educators, podcasters, and anyone who relies on clear audio communication.

Key Features

• AI Noise Cancellation: Utilizes advanced artificial intelligence to identify and remove all types of background noise in real-time, both from your microphone output and from incoming audio.
• Voice Cancellation: Beyond just noise, Krisp.ai can also distinguish human voices, allowing you to selectively remove other voices from your audio stream while keeping yours clear.
• Echo Cancellation: Effectively eliminates room and acoustic echoes, ensuring a clean and professional sound even in challenging environments.
• Speaker Separation: Can isolate a specific speaker’s voice from a multi-person conversation, which is particularly useful for transcription or focused listening.
• Universal Compatibility: Integrates seamlessly with over 800 communication and streaming apps, including Zoom, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Discord, OBS Studio, and more.
• Device Agnostic: Works with any microphone, headset, or speaker setup you might have, requiring no special hardware.
• Cross-Platform Support: Available on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, providing consistent noise cancellation across all your devices.
• Low Resource Usage: Designed to be lightweight, ensuring it doesn’t significantly impact your system’s performance during calls.

Pros

• Exceptional Noise Reduction: Highly effective at eliminating a wide range of background noises, leading to significantly clearer calls and recordings.
• Easy to Use: Simple setup and intuitive interface allow users to get started quickly without technical hassle.
• Broad Compatibility: Works with virtually all popular communication, conferencing, and streaming applications.
• Improved Productivity: Reduces distractions and ensures messages are heard clearly, enhancing focus and efficiency in virtual meetings.
• Two-Way Cancellation: Not only cleans your outgoing audio but also filters noise from incoming audio, improving your listening experience.
• Constant Updates: The AI model is continuously refined, leading to ongoing improvements in noise cancellation quality.

Cons

• Occasional Voice Artifacts: In rare instances or very aggressive noise environments, voices might sound slightly processed or robotic, though this has improved significantly over time.
• Internet Connection Dependency: While core functionality works offline, some features or periodic license validation might require an internet connection.
• Limited Free Tier: The free version offers limited minutes per week/month, making a paid subscription necessary for heavy users.
• Potential for Latency: While generally minimal, adding another layer of audio processing can theoretically introduce slight latency, though this is rarely noticeable.
• Subscription Cost: For individual users, the monthly or annual subscription fee might be a consideration, especially if only used occasionally.

Pricing

• Free Plan: Offers basic noise cancellation with a limited number of minutes per week (e.g., 60 minutes per week). This is great for testing the software or very light use.
• Pro Plan: Designed for individual users, providing unlimited noise cancellation, advanced features, and priority support. Typically priced around $8-$12 per user per month, with discounts available for annual billing (e.g., $96 billed annually).
• Business/Teams Plan: Tailored for organizations, offering centralized billing, user management, volume discounts, and dedicated support. Pricing varies based on the number of users and specific organizational needs, often starting from a certain number of seats.