This functionality identifies who said what in a Microsoft Teams Room meeting and allows each person to have their spoken words accurately attributed to them in the transcript, says Jabra. Using intelligent speech recognition, it identifies up to 10 individual speakers’ voices. The feature also includes names of in-room participants to the live transcription so people are aware of who the speakers are and the content of the meeting.

Additionally, the voice-recognition functionality – upon individual enrollment – enables in-room participants to maintain their identity in the meeting transcript. Thus, it allows for more precise intelligent recaps for users with a Teams Premium license, the company notes.

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Features of Intelligent Speaker Functionality

Per a statement, the Intelligent Speaker feature is proprietary Microsoft technology to uniquely identify a person’s voice to have accurate speaker attribution. When multiple people are speaking in a conference room, and the transcription feature in Microsoft Teams is enabled, it makes sure the sentences and words of each attendee can be attributed to them as opposed to being generically attributed to the meeting space.

Jabra PanaCast 50 is the first and only Microsoft Teams Rooms video bar that supports Intelligent Speaker right in the bar, per a statement. Thus, one does not need to purchase a secondary device just to enable this capability. The PanaCast 50 also now natively includes Microsoft’s Intelligent Meeting Space. This allows the videobar system to set room boundaries to avoid including outsiders in the meeting field-of-view, says Jabra.

Streamlining Online Meetings

As explained by Microsoft, announcing the general availability, Intelligent Speaker will bring people identification in live transcription in a shared environment. Thus, it allows everyone in the meeting to spend less time taking notes. Moreover, participants can easily follow along who said what in the room, per a statement.

According to Jabra, the Intelligent Speaker functionality includes a seven-microphone array to identify voices. So whether participants are working remotely or in the conference room, they can effectively see who said what during and after the meeting.

Josh Blalock, Microsoft MVP and chief video evangelist at Jabra says, “No one likes taking minutes. And now, no one has to. We are proud to be the first to bring Intelligent Speaker for Microsoft Teams directly to a video collaboration bar, expanding the ROI for our PanaCast 50 customers and eliminating the need for them to further complicate their meeting-room deployments.”

Blalock adds, “At Jabra, we are always looking for ways to harness the power of cutting-edge AI technologies to revolutionize hybrid and remote meetings. And this is a major step.”

Another version of this article originally appeared on our sister-site Commercial Integrator on November 17, 2023. It has since been updated for My TechDecisions’ audience.

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The Sudbury, Mass. company’s new devices are the CS-800 Video Sound Bar and CS-500 Collaboration System, which add to the growing product category of collaboration bars that integrate multiple technologies and reduce the need to outfit conference rooms with complicated systems.

The CS-800 Video Sound Bar is an all-in-one device that includes the microphone, speaker, camera and HDMI video output, while the CS-500 Video Collaboration System includes the microphone, camera and HDMI output, utilizing the speaker of the connected display.

Both feature the company’s AI-powered audio processing and framing technologies that automatically identify the conference space and meeting participants and capture the speakers’ voices while eliminating unwanted background noises.

Both also feature a 4K AI-enabled camera that supports three modes of auto-framing, including speaker tracking, individual tracking or group modes.

According to Yamaha, both devices use an HDMI connection that allows users to launch calls in a bring-your-own device environment or with installed equipment. They both also support auto wake up and provide on-screen guidance about starting a meeting when a user enters a meeting space.

Organizations can also add customized images and provide corporate messaging.

Both devices can be mounted on a table, wall or on a display. Both have passed Zoom’s testing and are certified as a Zoom Rooms device.

Commenting on the intelligent features embedded in the devices, CEO Tatsuya Umeo says the video bars provide a frictionless conference experience.

“The new CS-800 and CS-500 use Yamaha’s state-of-the-art audio processing technology with the latest in intelligent video technology to automatically identify the conference space and the meeting participants,” says Tatsuya Umeo, CEO of Yamaha Unified Communications. “Our signature technology, SoundCap Eye, combines video information with audio information to capture the speakers’ voices. The newly developed Hexa-Microphone not only discovers speakers but also eliminates distracting noises and sounds in the same vicinity.”

Check out Yamaha’s Unified Communications products on AV-iQ.com.

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