Nvidia's new 30-series graphics cards are promising some amazing performance improvements, like the $500 RTX 3070 outperforming the 2080 Ti. But Nvidia's also hyping up other features exclusive to its graphics cards, and one of the new ones launching in September, Nvidia Broadcast, seems like it'll be useful for just about everyone with a gaming PC. Broadcast is an app built on RTX Voice that makes it easier for streamers—or anyone who uses a webcam and voice chat, really—to play games and talk at the same time.When Nvidia launched RTX Voice in beta earlier this year, we marveled at how well it could cut out background noise, from a loud fan to even the clackiest mechanical keyboard. For the most part, it works better than any other noise canceling tech we've seen (although a recent driver update has turned executive editor Tyler Wilde into a static monster in some of our video meetings). It works based on “the power of AI,” which is buzzwordy but it's hard to argue with the results.Like RTX Voice, Nvidia Broadcast includes that noise removal for both your microphone and incoming audio “to mute that one keyboard-mashing friend who won’t turn on push-to-talk.” If you look at the interface in the demo video above, it seems like Broadcast will have some other effects to apply to incoming audio rather than just noise removal. Maybe you can make your friends sound like they're underwater, or something.With the current application, applying RTX Voice to incoming audio filters all of your audio output, including game audio or music, so it's not useful in all situations.
