EDUcast: New Audio Technology that Overcomes Workplace Challenges

by Gary Audin Where we work, how we work and when we work has changed significantly over the past decades. Audio conferencing has grown to become common place. However, where we are collaborating can be in a conference room, open office, cafeteria, conference exhibit floor, airport, or even outdoors. These varied locations present challenges to the conferencing technologies that need to be addressed. The conferencing endpoints are portable and have to overcome a range of environmental conditions to be effective. Phil Marechal, VP Product Management & Business Development at Yamaha UC www.uc.yamaha.com and Gary Audin recorded this brief EDUcast tutorial discussing workplace conferencing technologies. The discussion starts with reviewing the changes to workplaces where an audio conference may be held. Phil then reviews the conditions that are encountered for today’s conference calls. He moves on to present the challenges that modern audio conferencing technologies have to contend to produce clear conversations under many distracting conditions. What you will learn in this EDUcast: The Changing Workplace Workplace Conversation Goals Challenges to Effective Collaboration Technology Solutions How does technology help? Yamaha UC www.uc.yamaha.com audio and video conferencing solutions streamline collaboration and boost productivity wherever people need to speak openly, share freely, and create exceptional things. Yamaha’s considered approach to building enterprise-grade microphone systems, conference phones, and video sound bars ensures exceptional audio quality, ease of connectivity and flexibility for meetings across the table or across the globe. Wired and wireless options complement today’s nuanced and hectic business systems. With core tenets of simplicity, clarity, and efficiency, Yamaha brings to unified communications a passion for sound and performance that has been creating excitement and inspiration for more than 130 years.