ClearTone by SGO

Crystal Clear Calls,
Both Sides of the Line

ClearTone is an AI noise cancelling app and AI note taker for people who are on the phone all day. It removes background noise from your microphone and from the person you're talking to, then writes up the call for you. Everything runs on your own computer, and it still sounds like you.

Windows, Mac and Linux. Works with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and any dialler or softphone.

Smiling SGO PeopleHub agent wearing a headset on a clear call with ClearTone AI noise cancelling
Noise removed on both sides of the call

Pick a noise and switch ClearTone on and off. This is what the people on your calls stop hearing.

Background noise-38 dBremoved

ClearTone is on. The keyboard behind you is gone, and only your voice goes down the line.

2 sidesNoise removed from you and from them
0 botsNothing joins your call
26Languages transcribed on your computer
£9A month for one person

What Makes Your Calls Harder?

Pick the one that sounds most like your day and we'll show you where ClearTone helps first.

Let's Clear the Background

ClearTone removes keyboards, traffic, fans, pets and nearby voices from your microphone in real time, while your voice stays natural.

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How many times today have you said “sorry, could you say that again?”

Has a dog, a drill or the person at the next desk ever joined your call uninvited?

Do you finish a call and then spend ten minutes typing up what was said?

If you nodded at any of these, ClearTone was built for you. Here is what it does.

One App for Every Call You Make

Install ClearTone and it switches itself on for every calling app: Aircall, CloudTalk, RingCentral, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and the rest all get clean audio, a live transcript and notes.

AI Noise Cancellation

Keyboards, barking dogs, traffic, fans and the conversation at the next desk vanish from your microphone, while your voice stays natural.

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Clean Up Their Line Too

ClearTone also removes the noise behind the person you're calling, so you can hear a customer in a busy shop or a car.

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AI Note Taker With No Bot

A live transcript of both sides, then highlights, calls to action and a follow-up email, without a bot joining your call. Say “Hey ClearTone, rebook this meeting” and it does.

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Only My Voice

Teach ClearTone your voice once and it turns down colleagues talking near you. It never cuts you off mid-sentence.

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Live Call Coaching

Talk time, long monologues, quiet lines and objection prompts on your screen while you talk. Only you can see it.

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Auto Volume and Headset Checks

Quiet callers are lifted and loud ones calmed, and ClearTone warns you when your microphone is muted before anyone hears silence.

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ClearTone sits between your headset and the computer, so it works with any calling app on Windows or Mac, and in Chrome with ClearTone for Chrome. There is nothing to install inside your dialler and no integration to wait for.

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ZoomMicrosoft TeamsGoogle MeetSlack huddlesWebexGoTo MeetingWhatsApp DesktopDiscordand any other meeting app

Apps set to the computer's default microphone and speaker (the usual setting) use ClearTone automatically. If an app has a particular headset chosen, pick ClearTone in its audio settings once. Product names are trademarks of their owners and are listed to show compatibility.

Try It: ClearTone Camera

Choose Your Background Once. It Follows You Into Every App.

Pick a background, then switch between meeting apps. The background stays exactly the same, because ClearTone Camera puts it there before any app sees your picture.

Zoom MeetingCamera: ClearTone Camera
SGO PeopleHub agent in a headset with her background replaced by ClearTone Camera World Map Office

Pick a Background

Same background in Zoom. Nothing to set up inside the app.

  • Set it up once in ClearTone, at the start
  • Choose ClearTone Camera in each app, one time
  • From then on every meeting app shows the same background

Your own picture stays in your browser and is never uploaded. ClearTone Camera runs on Windows 10 and 11.

Smiling SGO PeopleHub agent with a headset on a busy call floor, with ClearTone removing the voices of colleagues nearby
Only her voice goes down the line

ClearTone was built inside SGO PeopleHub for our own sales and support teams in the Philippines, who make hundreds of calls a day to the UK, Australia and the United States from busy offices and home desks.

Every feature started as a real problem on a real call floor: the agent at the next desk, the customer ringing from a car, the notes nobody had time to write.

Notes You Can Trust, Because Nothing Is Guessed

ClearTone hears each side of the call on its own channel, so it always knows who said what. After the call it writes the highlights, what was discussed, the other person's needs and objections, the questions they asked, the expected outcomes, calls to action with owners and dates, the next meeting and a follow-up email, using only what was actually said.

  • Unlimited transcription with no monthly minute caps
  • Searchable notes kept on your computer
  • Export to a file or straight into your CRM notes
  • Works on phone and softphone calls, not just video meetings

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Live transcript

Coaching in the Moment, Not a Week Later

Most conversation intelligence tools tell you what went wrong after the call. ClearTone shows you while it's happening: when you've been talking too long, when the line goes quiet, and the best answer when the prospect raises an objection.

  • Talk ratio and longest monologue, live
  • Voicemail greetings and beeps detected
  • Objections spotted and matched to your answers in SGO Call Caddie
  • Manager dashboard with numbers only, never recordings

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Live call coach00:00
You50%
Them50%
Your longest stretch0 s

Free Tool: Notes Time Calculator

How Much Time Do Call Notes Really Cost You?

Move the sliders to match a normal day. The numbers are worked out from your answers, nothing else.

6.7hours a week on notes
38working days a year

That is time ClearTone gives back, because it writes the notes, action items and follow-up email for you.

Get That Time Back, Free for 3 Days

SGO Call Caddie is a live call guide for sales and appointment-setting teams, made by SGO PeopleHub. Open a lead and it puts everything for that call on one screen: who you're calling and their local time, the script step by step, the best answer to each objection, and buttons to book the meeting, save the outcome and move to the next lead in one press.

ClearTone works inside it. From the Call Caddie screen you can switch ClearTone on or off, see the objections ClearTone heard on the call with your answer ready, and add the prospect's key lines to your notes with one click. You don't need Call Caddie to use ClearTone; it simply makes the two work as one for sales teams.

Learn About SGO Call Caddie

Call Caddie at a Glance

  • Script, objection answers and lead details on one screen
  • Book the meeting and send the invite without leaving the call
  • Outcome and notes saved back to your CRM
  • Next lead in one press, never auto-dialled
  • Manager view for meetings booked and follow-ups
  • ClearTone controls and heard objections built in

Private by Design

ClearTone does its work on your own computer. Your audio is never sent to a server, no bot joins your calls, and your notes stay on your machine unless you choose to share them.

On-Device Processing

Noise removal, transcription, translation and summaries all run locally on Windows and Mac.

Works With Any App

ClearTone appears as a microphone and speaker, so there is nothing to install in Zoom, Teams or your phone system.

Your Notes, Your Computer

Call notes are stored in a searchable notebook on your device. Managers only ever see numbers such as talk time.

Start Your Free Trial

Choose a plan for one person or your whole team and start a 3-day free trial. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.

Install and Read Four Lines

Download ClearTone for Windows, Mac or Linux. A one-minute mic check reads four short lines in your voice and tunes the noise removal to you.

Make Calls as Normal

ClearTone becomes your computer's microphone and speaker while it runs. Zoom, Teams, Google Meet and your dialler use it automatically, and every call is cleaned, transcribed and written up.

A plain-English guide to what ClearTone does, how it works and who it is for.

How AI Noise Cancellation Works

An AI noise cancelling app listens to the sound coming from your microphone and separates it into two parts: the human voice you want people to hear, and everything else. Older noise gates simply muted the microphone when it went quiet, which cut off the start and end of words and did nothing about noise while you were speaking. Modern noise cancellation uses a neural network that has learned, from thousands of hours of recorded speech and recorded noise, what a voice looks like in sound. It removes keyboards, traffic, fans, barking dogs and nearby conversations while you talk, not just between sentences, and it does it in a few hundredths of a second so the person on the other end never hears a delay.

ClearTone runs that model on your own computer. It sits between your headset and every calling app, so the clean version of your voice is what Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack or your sales dialler receives.

Why Cleaning Both Sides of the Call Matters

A noise cancelling headset or a microphone setting only fixes your side of the conversation. The other person's background noise still arrives in your ears at full volume. When a customer rings from a car, a warehouse or a shop floor, you end up asking them to repeat themselves, the call runs longer and both of you leave it more tired.

ClearTone removes background noise from the incoming audio as well. It also evens out the volume, lifting quiet callers and calming loud ones, so a long day on the phone is easier on your ears. That two-way clean-up is why ClearTone describes itself as clear calls on both sides of the line.

Why On-Device Processing Is Safer

Many call tools send your audio to a cloud server to be cleaned or transcribed. That adds delay and means a copy of the conversation sits on someone else's computer. ClearTone keeps the noise removal, the live transcript, the translation and the AI call summary on your own computer. No bot joins the meeting, no recording is uploaded, and team leaders only ever see numbers such as talk time, never the words.

Noise Cancellation Plus Notes and Coaching

Because ClearTone already hears your microphone and the incoming line on separate channels, it can do more than remove noise. It writes a live transcript with exact You and Them labels, then turns the call into notes: highlights, needs, objections, questions, calls to action with owners and dates, and a ready-to-send follow-up email. During the call it coaches you with your talk ratio, long monologue alerts, dead air warnings and voicemail detection.

Most teams would otherwise pay for a noise cancelling app, an AI note taker and a call coaching tool separately. ClearTone is one app, from £9 a month for one person.

Who Uses ClearTone

ClearTone was built inside SGO PeopleHub, which builds dedicated offshore teams for businesses abroad, for our own sales and customer support teams in the Philippines, who make hundreds of calls a day to the UK, Australia and the United States from busy offices and home desks. Today it is used by call centres and BPOs, SDR and sales teams, remote and hybrid workers, recruiters, virtual assistants and anyone who spends a large part of the day on calls and wants to sound professional wherever they are.

SGO PeopleHub dedicated offshore team standing together at the SGO office in the Philippines
Recruited, employed and managed by SGO

Need the People as Well as the Tools?

ClearTone is made by SGO PeopleHub, and staffing is what we do every day. Are you hiring for sales and customer support? We can build you a dedicated, professionally managed team in the Philippines, often for a fraction of the cost of hiring locally, already trained and equipped with ClearTone.

Wondering what that would cost for your business? See our staffing pricing or book a call with our team.

Dedicated Offshore Teams

Full-time staff who work only for you, recruited, employed and supported by SGO, with an account manager looking after the day to day.

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Clear, Lower Costs

One monthly fee per team member covering salary, benefits, workspace and management, with no recruitment fees to budget for separately.

See staffing pricing

Sales and Support Specialists

Appointment setters, SDRs and customer support agents who already use the same tools and call standards as our own teams.

Sales outsourcing

Download ClearTone

One plan covers every version. Start your free trial, then sign in with the same email to download. It installs in about a minute.

Windows

Windows 10 (version 2004 or later) and Windows 11, 64-bit. Includes ClearTone Camera.

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Mac, Apple Chip

macOS 11 Big Sur or later on M1, M2, M3 and M4 Macs.

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Mac, Intel

macOS 11 Big Sur or later on Intel Macs.

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Linux (AppImage)

64-bit Fedora, Arch, openSUSE and most other distributions.

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Ubuntu and Debian

Ubuntu 22.04 or later and Debian 12, as a .deb package.

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ClearTone for Chrome

Chromebooks and browser calls in Chrome or Edge.

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Downloads need a ClearTone plan or free trial. Every download is signed by SGO PeopleHub.

How ClearTone Compares

Side-by-side comparisons with the tools people usually look at first.

ClearTone vs Krisp

Both remove background noise on both sides of a call. ClearTone adds live call coaching, voicemail detection, Filipino translation and a numbers-only team dashboard, at a lower monthly price.

Read the Krisp comparison

ClearTone vs Fireflies

Fireflies records and transcribes meetings in the cloud. ClearTone writes your notes on your own computer, works on phone calls and also removes background noise.

Read the Fireflies comparison

Hear the Difference on Your Next Call

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What is ClearTone?

ClearTone is a desktop app for Windows and Mac that removes background noise from both sides of your calls, transcribes the call live, writes a summary with action items afterwards and coaches you while you talk. It works with any calling app.

Does ClearTone work with Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet?

Yes. ClearTone switches itself on as the computer's microphone and speaker while it runs, so Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack and any dialler or softphone set to the default devices use it automatically. If an app has a particular headset chosen, pick ClearTone in its audio settings once.

Is my audio uploaded anywhere?

No. Noise removal, transcription, translation and the AI summaries all run on your own computer. No bot joins your call and no recording is sent to a server.

Can ClearTone remove background noise from the other person?

Yes. ClearTone cleans the incoming audio as well as your microphone, so a customer calling from a car, a shop or a busy office sounds clear to you.

How much does ClearTone cost?

£9 a month for one person, or £15 per user per month for organisations, with 15% off every user after the first 10. Yearly plans cost less. Every plan starts with a 3-day free trial.

Does it make my voice sound robotic?

ClearTone keeps your own voice and leaves a faint natural room tone, so you sound like a person in a quiet room rather than a processed signal.

Which computers does ClearTone run on?

Windows 10 (version 2004 or later), Windows 11, macOS 11 or later on Apple chip and Intel Macs, and 64-bit Linux such as Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. ClearTone for Chrome covers Chromebooks and browser calls.

Is there a free trial?

Yes. Every plan starts with a 3-day free trial. You can cancel before it ends and pay nothing, and any payment can be refunded in full within 14 days.

Does ClearTone work with headsets and laptop microphones?

Yes. It works with USB, Bluetooth and wired headsets and with built-in laptop microphones. A headset with a close microphone gives the best result.

Can I use ClearTone for a whole team?

Yes. Organisation plans are £15 per user per month with 15% off every user after the first 10, a numbers-only team dashboard, and seats that move between staff at no charge.

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