Windows 11 now has better Bluetooth quality for game chat and voice calls

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

“When utilizing an LE Audio instrumentality with a Windows 11 PC that supports ace wideband stereo, the power into crippled chat nary longer causes an abrupt driblet successful audio quality,” explains Mike Ajax, a main programme manager pb astatine Microsoft. Game audio volition stay successful stereo and watercourse astatine ace wideband quality, alternatively of the constricted acquisition of Bluetooth Classic.

LE Audio uses a 32kHz illustration complaint portion utilizing dependable apps similar Teams oregon Discord, and replaces the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) and Hands-Free Profile (HFP) of Bluetooth Classic. HFP utilized a 8kHz illustration complaint and resulted successful muffled audio, but astir Bluetooth headsets present enactment amended audio compression and a amended illustration complaint for “wideband” oregon “super wideband” voice.

The LE Audio enactment volition besides amended calls successful apps similar 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 enactment implicit Bluetooth LE Audio enables Spatial Audio successful Teams, and tin beryllium toggled connected successful the audio settings wrong the Teams lawsuit 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 the latest drivers and Windows 11 24H2 update. Existing PCs should get the indispensable operator updates aboriginal this year, and Microsoft expects “most caller mobile PCs that motorboat starting successful precocious 2025 volition person enactment from the factory.”