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CLUSTER BACKGROUND-DESKTOP-MICROPHONE · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-05

Real-time mic noise suppression

This cluster consists of desktop applications that clean microphone audio in real time, removing noise and boosting clarity for voice chat and other programs. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from—only one pre-index entry exists, so the cluster likely predates the index or its members are undated. Among traction leaders, linux-broadcast has the highest activity signal (5 stars), followed by CapyMic (2 stars) and ArcMic (1 star).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2026: 4OCT 2026: 1
SEP 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 2 unlabelled

Operator · 4 hobby · 1 indie

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01simple-clean-mic4★19 dayslivehobbyWindows desktop app that removes background noise, keyboard clicks, and echo from a microphone in real time for voice chat and streaming.
  2. 02ArcMic1★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyDesktop utility that boosts microphone gain and removes background noise for clearer voice chat in games.
  3. 03VST-Applier0★18 days—hobbyDesktop app that routes microphone audio through a chain of audio plugins in real time to improve voice quality for calls and streaming.
  4. 04MicFix0★26 dayslivehand-codedindieWindows desktop app that removes hum, hiss, and background noise from a microphone in real time and feeds clean audio to any application.
  5. 05CapyMic2★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyDesktop app that suppresses microphone background noise in real time so other programs receive a cleaner audio signal.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.