Do I need a noise cancelling microphone?

[Shahmatt]

In my office I use my laptop mic to take Teams call.

When I stop talking, and the mic is unmuted, it starts to amplify surrounding environment sounds. Other people in the call find it distracting.

I only want it to pick up near field sounds. When I have stopped talking it would be good if surround sound is ignored.

I see on Shopee there are noise cancelling microphones. Will they fix my problem?

Btw for listening I use my old Shokz Openmove, but the microphone on this is very faint. So I change microphone to the laptop mic.

 

[Slowdown]

No mic will solve the problem. Mute yourself when you are not speaking. True noise cancelling microphones are very expensive. I tried many brands (non Apple). Up to 100 bucks. Same problem.

 

[Shahmatt]

No mic will solve the problem. Mute yourself when you are not speaking. True noise cancelling microphones are very expensive. I tried many brands (non Apple). Up to 100 bucks. Same problem.

Thanks for the advice

 

[KleoZy]

If you are using a Macbook, map input mic and webcam to your iPhone. You can use iPhone as a webcam and you can dont turn on your cam but to use it's microphone as iPhone mic has build in noise cancellation. For laptop Teams have this feature where by you can add device to your meeting. Use your samsung or google pixel or iPhone to join teams and on your laptop, join and click on Add Device to meeting. So this way you use your laptop to view the presentation slides while you use your phone to speak.