Windows 11 Now Has Better Bluetooth Quality For Game Chat And Voice Calls

Microsoft is addressing muffled audio value connected Bluetooth headsets by introducing a caller LE Audio characteristic for Windows 11. Built connected apical of nan Bluetooth Low Energy power spec, LE Audio uses a caller compression algorithm that results successful higher value audio that Microsoft says will “drastically” amended nan audio acquisition successful games and calls connected Windows 11.

“When utilizing an LE Audio instrumentality pinch a Windows 11 PC that supports ace wideband stereo, nan move into crippled chat nary longer causes an abrupt driblet successful audio quality,” explains Mike Ajax, a main programme head lead astatine Microsoft. Game audio will stay successful stereo and watercourse astatine ace wideband quality, alternatively of nan constricted acquisition of Bluetooth Classic.

LE Audio uses a 32kHz sample complaint while utilizing sound apps for illustration Teams aliases Discord, and replaces nan Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) and Hands-Free Profile (HFP) of Bluetooth Classic. HFP utilized a 8kHz sample complaint and resulted successful muffled audio, but astir Bluetooth headsets now support amended audio compression and a amended sample complaint for “wideband” aliases “super wideband” voice.

The LE Audio support will besides amended calls successful apps for illustration Microsoft Teams. While Teams uses Spatial Audio for wired headsets, it depends connected stereo audio and hasn’t antecedently been supported connected Bluetooth headsets. The ace wideband stereo support complete Bluetooth LE Audio enables Spatial Audio successful Teams, and tin beryllium toggled connected successful nan audio settings wrong nan Teams customer connected Windows.

All you request is simply a Bluetooth headset that supports Bluetooth LE Audio, arsenic good arsenic a Windows 11 PC that besides supports LE Audio and has nan latest drivers and Windows 11 24H2 update. Existing PCs should get driver updates later this year, and Microsoft expects “most caller mobile PCs that motorboat starting successful precocious 2025 will person support from nan factory.”