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NoiseTorch

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NoiseTorch is an open source app for Linux with PulseAudio. It creates a virtual microphone that suppresses noise. Use any conferencing or VOIP app you like and simply select the NoiseTorch Virtual Microphone as input to remove unwanted noise.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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  • Linux
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  1.  Remove Noise
  2.  Noise Reduction
  3.  AI-Powered
  4.  Background Noise Reduction

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  • noise-cancelling

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  • Developed by

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  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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OS & Utilities

GitHub repository

  •  21 Stars
  •  1 Forks
  •  0 Open Issues
  •   Updated May 27, 2022 (Archived)
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about NoiseTorch, and it has gotten 7 likes

NoiseTorch was added to AlternativeTo by Elros Telperien on Jul 24, 2020 and this page was last updated Jun 21, 2022.

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Top Positive Comment
D33pSh33p
Jan 14, 2023
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After a few hours of researching this came out as my go-to noise reduction program on Linux. It does a fantastic job of removing unwanted background noises. This is what you want for any program using the microphone on Linux (incl. Discord).

Versus others: It works with Pipewire (do not use Pulseaudio). It also runs smoothly on KDE Plasma unlike EasyEffects which relies on the framework "libadwaita". Cadmus has not been updated for a while and relies on Pulseaudio (replaced by Pipewire). Real-Time Noise Suppression Plugin seems good, but the configuration is not as straight forward and it is picky on configuration. However, it is, just like NoiseTorch, based on RNNoise and said to be good (I did not test this one).

For Fedora 37 there is a maintained version of NoiseTorch on COPR by "Principis". It is what I use.

You might read about a security incident where the original github maintainer warned that his machine(s) were compromized. The community audited the code and deemed the code safe. New github was created and new security measures put in place, just to be safe. The COPR maintainer was also aware and did some investigation on his own. So I would not be worried.

Bottom line: This program is neat. It is especially neat if you use KDE Plasma. And it is easy to install and set up.

What is NoiseTorch?

Real-time microphone noise suppression on Linux. Contribute to NoiseTorch development by creating an account on GitHub.

NoiseTorch is an easy to use open source application for Linux with PulseAudio. It creates a virtual microphone that suppresses noise, in any application. Use whichever conferencing or VOIP application you like and simply select the NoiseTorch Virtual Microphone as input to torch the sound of your mechanical keyboard, computer fans, trains and the likes.

Features

Two click setup of your virtual denoising microphone A single, small, statically linked, self-contained binary

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