How to disable noise suppression when an application is using the microphone.

Hi,

My computer sound suddenly back to normal, either one of these, or the combination of both, set it back without me realizing it..

1. Had a zoom meeting.
2. Had connected my computer to Logitech Conference System

After ending the zoom meeting and disconnected my computer from the Logitech system, the music (considered as noises before) is back on by built-in speaker. During the zoom meeting, the noise suppression is always on (as it normally happened).

BTW, my system is DELL Alienware X15 r2, Windows 11.

Thank you.

I wrestled long and hard with this on a new Acer laptop. Tried all sorts of suggestions at driver level or in Zoom. In the end it was an app probably under Acer control: Realtek Audio Console. All speakers must have 'speakers noise cancellation' switched off, and all microphones have 'AI noise reduction' switched off.

It will be a different app name in other laptop makes, for example I saw a post where a Dell Inspiron needed MaxxAudio Pro to be tweaked in the same way.

They should not have set the music cancellation default to 'on' and then made it so hard to find, with neither Windows nor apps like Zoom giving any clue where to find it.

I wrestled long and hard with this on a new Acer laptop. Tried all sorts of suggestions at driver level or in Zoom. In the end it was an app probably under Acer control: Realtek Audio Console. All speakers must have 'speakers noise cancellation' switched off, and all microphones have 'AI noise reduction' switched off.

It will be a different app name in other laptop makes, for example I saw a post where a Dell Inspiron needed MaxxAudio Pro to be tweaked in the same way.

They should not have set the music cancellation default to 'on' and then made it so hard to find, with neither Windows nor apps like Zoom giving any clue where to find it.

Finally! I did just this - disabled the Noise Reduction in the MaxxAudio Pro - and now songs come through Zoom without suppression. I had tried just about all of the suggestions I could find anywhere and nothing would stop the automatic suppression until now. Thank you! It was a maddening journey.

Facing same issue. Please let me know if you find a solution.

I was working with a client with the same issue on Windows 11. Thanks to these suggestions, we were able to find a Dell application called "Dell Optimizer" that was suppressing background noise on all audio inputs.

So it seems there are different applications doing this. Does Windows 11 have new features that open up this functionality to these applications, thus the reason we are seeing this?