How to use Nvidia Broadcast on your PC to improve your broadcasting setup

Summary

• Need to improve video call/audio quality? Using Nvidia Broadcast tool can eliminate unwanted background noise easily.
• Easily blur/remove your background for video calls with Nvidia Broadcast. Also features Auto Frame to keep you in focus.
• Nvidia Broadcast requires GeForce RTX 2060 GPU or higher. Alternatives available but Nvidia offers better results.

Nvidia's graphics cards, as you probably already know, give you access to a lot of cool features like DLSS and ray reconstruction that improve the overall experience. It's features like these that make Nvidia GPUs better than AMD ones in 2024, and there's plenty to like about them. Nvidia users also get access to utilities like Nvidia Broadcast, which I find extremely useful for casual gamers and creators alike. I've been using Nvidia Broadcast on my PC every day for a few years now, and I can't recommend it enough. If you also have access to an Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card, then here's how you can use the Nvidia Broadcast software to improve your video calling and streaming setup.

Using Nvidia Broadcast's noise suppression

Say goodbye to unwanted background noise

One of the biggest draws of Nvidia Broadcast is its ability to eliminate unwanted background noise from the audio picked up by the microphone. This particular feature was introduced as "RTX Voice" before it became a part of the Broadcast suit, but it remains one of the most popular tools. This feature, in case you're wondering, uses AI to cut out all the background noise and make the audio from your microphone sound crystal clear. I used it for the first time to compensate for the terrible audio quality of the microphone I had at the time, but it's been a part of my PC since then, and I continue to use it every day even now.

Listen to this audio clip with my voice recorded with and without Nvidia Broadcast tool. These clips were recorded on a Blue Snowball ICE microphone using the Audacity software.

To use Nvidia Broadcast's noise suppression tool:

1. Visit the Nvidia Broadcast page, click Download Now button to download it, and install it on your PC.
   
2. Launch the Nvidia Broadcast utility, and click on the Microphone tab on the top if it's not already selected.
   
3. Click the dropdown menu located under the Microphone source section, and select the audio source of your PC.
   
4. Click the dropdown menu under the Effects section and select Noise removal. Also, hit the toggle next to it to enable the effect.
   
5. Move the slider to adjust the strength of the effect. I personally leave at the max setting for the best results.
   
6. Open the application of your choice like, say, Discord, and ensure that you've selected Nvidia Broadcast as your audio input.
   

And that's how easy it is to use Nvidia Broadcast to make your audio sound clear at all times. I always make it a point to route my audio through the Broadcast software, be it for a video/voice call on Discord, Google Meet, or for occasional gaming streams on platforms like Twitch and YouTube. It's a no-brainer considering you don't have to launch or set up the tool every single day. It gets into the list of apps that start automatically on Windows startup, and it remembers the audio source that you set during the original setup process. You may have to revisit it when you remove the audio source, but that's about it.

Nvidia Broadcast is simply perfect for those who don't have the luxury of having pin-drop silence in their room/house for a meeting or streaming. There are plenty of background noise removal tools out there on rotation these days, but I am yet to have found a convincing reason to switch from Broadcast. Enabling background noise remover is as easy as turning on a toggle, and it works as advertised without causing any trouble whatsoever to my workflow.

Using Nvidia Broadcast to blur or remove your background from calls

It's got some great webcam tools too

You can also use Nvidia Broadcast to remove your background or blur it from the footage your send out for video calls. It has a handy tool to remove or replace your background in case you want to hide it or jazz up something more interesting. Sure, you can do this directly on Google Meet and various other video chat apps, but I prefer using Broadcast, so I don't have to fiddle with a bunch of settings on different applications. You can also use it to blur the background instead of entirely replacing it, if that's something you're more into.

The background removal tool in Nvidia Broadcast is nice, but the feature I use the most is called Auto Frame, which, as the name implies, keeps you in frame all the time. It essentially crops into the footage with a fake zoom, but it'll adjust the frame automatically as you move to keep you front and center. The best webcams like the Obsbot Tiny 2 can track your movement to keep you in frame, but the Broadcast's Auto Frame feature can do that with your existing hardware.

To use these webcam features in Nvidia Broadcast:

1. Open Nvidia Broadcast and click the camera tab if it's not already selected.
   
2. Click the dropdown boxes one after the other under the camera source section to select your webcam and also the desired resolution of the footage.
   
3. Click the dropdown menu located under the effects section, and select one of the options like Background blur, Background replacement, and more.
   
4. Adjust the strength and select if you want the utility to favor performance or quality to deliver the footage accordingly.
   

And that's how easy it is use the webcam features on Nvidia Broadcast. Once done, you just have to select Nvidia Broadcast instead of your webcam source in the video calls and streaming utilities, and you should be good to go.

This utility only works with Nvidia GPUs, though

You'll need a GeForce RTX 2060 GPU or above

Nvidia Broadcast, as I mentioned previously, only works with Nvidia GPUs, and that's non-negotiable. You'll need a GeForce RTX 2060 or above from Nvidia's consumer line of GPUs for it to work on your PC, so keep that in mind. You'll also need at least 8GB of RAM, and either an Intel Core i5-8600 or newer, or AMD Ryzen R5 2600 or newer CPU. There are some alternatives to Nvidia Broadcast out there like AMD's own Noise Suppression tool for AMD GPU owners, and the XSplit VCam to blur or remove background from your webcam feed, but I believe Nvidia Broadcast delivers better results than other options.

Don't sleep on this free-to-use utility

Besides the features I've highlighted above, the Broadcast tool can also remove echo from the audio coming through your microphone, or remove noise or echo from the audio from an external source. More recently, Nvidia also added a new beta feature that uses AI to simulate eye contact when you're looking away from the camera. They're all pretty neat features, but the background noise removal and the webcam tools are pretty much the only ones I find myself using all the time. They're definitely worth checking out if you have a compatible Nvidia GPU, and I am sure you'll love the improvements it brings to your media setup.