Meta has announced that it’s including HD video calling and noise suppression to its Messenger app, together with a number of different options like AI backgrounds that assist convey it as much as par with different fashionable smartphone video calling apps.
HD video calling is enabled by default on Wi-Fi however will be turned on for calls utilizing your cell information plan within the “Name settings” menu. You’ll additionally discover choices to regulate noise cancellation or swap your name’s audio output. Meta says it’s giving customers the power to depart voice or video messages as nicely.
Apps like Google Meet, Zoom, and FaceTime have all had these options already, and for a few years in some cases. The identical goes for AI-generated backgrounds, not less than for Zoom and Meet. To attempt them inside Messenger, faucet the results icon in a name’s sidebar, describe what you need in a immediate field, and Meta AI will generate a background for you. Meta has been rolling out AI picture technology elsewhere, together with in Messenger chats and on Fb and Instagram.
Lastly, Meta has added hands-free calling and messages by way of Apple’s Siri voice assistant. In the event you say one thing like “utilizing Messenger” on the finish once you ask Siri to make a name or ship a textual content, and it ought to achieve this with Meta’s app as an alternative of certainly one of Apple’s built-in ones.