The Voice quality feature allows you to adjust the usage of the app based on your needs: whether you give more importance to having the best noise cancellation experience, highest possible voice quality, or keeping the CPU usage on a balanced level.
Voice quality modes
The 3 Voice quality modes give you the freedom to customize your experience with Krisp based on your needs.
Note: To access the Voice quality feature, make sure to have the Krisp Mac version 1.17.3 or higher.
To select the desired mode in your Krisp on Mac:
- Go to the Preferences.
- Open the Advanced settings.
- Click on the Voice quality dropdown list.
- Select the mode.
Check the details about the 3 modes below:
Auto
What is this?
This mode automatically gives you the best noise cancellation, voice quality, and balanced CPU/RAM usage whenever possible. The settings are adjusted accordingly based on the quality of your microphone and the current computer load. The accent here is on the noise cancellation though. In case there is a high usage of your CPU/RAM at some point, you might have a small decrease in the voice quality, but the app will always try to keep the noise cancellation on the top.
When to use?
Select this mode if you use Krisp for communication purposes.
Best voice quality (HD)
What is this?
This mode may consume more CPU/RAM resources but always tries to keep the audio quality at the highest level. Sometimes that can happen at the expense of the noise cancellation accuracy which might go from perfect to good to be able to process your voice at HD quality.
When to use?
Select this mode when the high-quality voice is important for you. Common use cases are recordings, streaming, or podcasting.
To benefit from this mode, make sure to use a microphone that is able to stream HD audio.
Note: If your audio setup (microphone, or audio connection) does not support HD audio, Krisp will not be able to process your voice in HD. When the received audio is originally not of good enough quality, Krisp does not recover or improve it.
Low power mode
What is this?
With this mode, Krisp goes on handling the noise cancellation in a decent way while using considerably less CPU/RAM. There might be some difference in the noise cancellation quality, but it shouldn't be very noticeable. Here as well, if your microphone is able to stream in HD, your audio will be of high quality.
When to use?
Select this mode if your computer is usually overloaded and does not have much free CPU/RAM capacity. A common use case is gaming, simultaneous active usage of heavy software when your machine itself is not powerful enough or you simply do not want Krisp to consume too much CPU/RAM.
Note: The HD icon can be present in your Krisp app in case your microphone is able to transmit your voice in HD quality. If it’s not, you will see only the blue leaf icon.
CPU overload warning
No matter the selected option, if at some point your system performance is not enough to process audio well, Krisp informs you about that through warnings from the Krisp app icon and in the app itself: “Krisp detected a high system load that may impact your voice quality”.
The noise cancellation does not stop from being applied on your audio, but the voice might become robotic or get clipped.
Once your computer performance stabilizes the warnings will be gone.
Warning from the Krisp app icon:
Warning inside the Krisp app:
