Krisp

Overview Krisp is the AI noise cancellation and voice clarity tool that sits between your microphone and every video conferencing app you use — removing background noise, echo, and other people's voices in real time, so the person on the other end of your call hears only you. Founded in 2017 in Berkeley and Yerevan by a team of ex Microsoft and ex Cisco engineers, Krisp was one of the first companies to ship consumer facing real time deep learning noise cancellation, and it earned a reputation during the 2020 2022 remote work boom as the tool that made bad home offices sound like studios. As of 2026 the product has expanded well beyond simple noise removal to include meeting transcription, live translation, AI meeting notes, background voice cancellation ("dog next door, coworker in the same room, kids playing"), echo cancellation, and an accent conversion feature — all wrapped in a virtual microphone and speaker driver that any app can pick up. What Krisp actually does, cleanly stated, is install a system level virtual audio device on your Mac, Windows PC, or mobile device that intercepts your microphone input, runs it through Krisp's noise suppression neural network in real time, and presents a clean audio stream to whatever app you point at it — Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack Huddles, Discord, WebEx, phone calls, OBS streams, anything. Same story for the speaker side (removing noise from the other participants). Latency is genuinely imperceptible in normal use. And unlike Zoom's…