Microsoft Teams will use AI to clean up your messy background

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Microsoft’s AI will tidy up your room, make it pretty, or even add some festive sparkle.
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Sometimes when you’re working from home, you don’t have enough time to clean up before that online meeting. But the folks at Microsoft have done their best to ensure that your reputation for cleanliness is preserved.
The tech company announced a new “decorate your room” feature for Microsoft Teams at the Ignite 2023 conference this week and will launch it next year.
The new feature will use artificial intelligence to create the “latest generative background effects” – allowing users to decorate and “enhance” their real-world rooms, including cleaning up clutter or adding plants to a wall.
This can It even goes so far as to make your room more festive, layering on string lights to make it “fancy” or adding a Christmas tree, Microsoft (MSFT) suggested in a promotional video for the new tool.
This tool is just one of many new features in Teams Premium and Copilot for Microsoft 365, including voice isolation and enhanced speaker recognition.
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