MC309911: Automatically Detect Music

Updated April 29, 2022: This will only be available to Edu customers at this time. We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The previously released ML-based noise suppression is now enabled by default for most of our customers. ML-based noise suppression considers any non-speech signal picked up by the microphone as noise which should be suppressed. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 89016.

The previously released ML-based noise suppression is now enabled by default for most of our customers. ML-based noise suppression considers any non-speech signal picked up by the microphone as noise which should be suppressed. To avoid suppressing music and to allow users to enable the new high-fidelity music mode, we have built an ML-based music detector which will inform the user whenever music is present through a notification. This will give the end user the choice whether music is indeed an unwanted background noise, such as when calling into a meeting from a coffee shop, or if music is a desired signal, such as when participating in a music lesson. This new feature is now available to Edu customers only. We will communicate when this is available to commercial and government customers.

To avoid suppressing music and to allow users to enable the new high-fidelity music mode, we have built an ML-based music detector which will inform the user whenever music is present through a notification. This will give the end user the choice whether music is indeed an unwanted background noise, such as when calling into a meeting from a coffee shop, or if music is a desired signal, such as when participating in a music lesson.

Key points

• Timing:
  • Standard (for EDU only): We will begin rolling this out in late April (previously late January) and expect to complete rollout mid-May (previously mid-February).
  • Standard (Commercial), GCC, GCC-H, and DOD is postponed at this time. We will communicate again when we have a more definitive date.
• Roll-out: Tenant level

How this will affect your organization

You will automatically get a notification if you are playing music. The notification will look as follows. Clicking on the High fidelity mode button will enable high fidelity music mode.

What you need to do to prepare

You might want to notify your users about this change and update your training and documentation as appropriate.

Message ID: MC309911
Published: 30 December 2021
Updated: 30 April 2022
Effective: 24 January 2022