How smart are your remote meetings?
Chances are your audio and video are super-crisp and clear. It’s likely that your in-room hardware is beautifully plug and play. Your cameras may even have clever automatic zoom-and-follow functionality for that all-around immersive meeting experience.
However, things have just got even smarter.
How about the ability to create invisible walls that convert open plan offices into multiple virtual meeting rooms? And what if Microsoft Teams automatically recognised participants’ voices and connected them seamlessly to fully-integrated, AI-powered features such as Co-Pilot, transcription functionality, and task-tagging.
It’s the latest iteration of cutting-edge video conferencing – all organisations and their technology service partners need to do is choose a provider that can place it all at their fingertips.
“Offices have become different sorts of places over the past few years, and employees’ ways of working have completely changed, meaning the vast majority of meetings are now virtual – the smartest and best videoconferencing solutions have evolved too,” says James Spencer, Video Solutions Director at leading global audio and video solutions provider Jabra, whose recent dual-aspect PanaCast 50 Video Bar firmware release is the perfect case in point.
The first element of the release – called Intelligent Meeting Space – enables users to create those invisible virtual ‘walls’ within which the audio and video functionality is delivered. The second element – called Intelligent Speaker – makes the Jabra PanaCast 50 the first ever Microsoft-certified video bar capable of integrating with Co-Pilot and capturing and leveraging valuable, AI-powered in-meeting usage intelligence, such as who is participating, what they are discussing, and which actions have been assigned where.
“Many organisations are now having video conferencing spaces in open-plan offices,” says Spencer.
“Jabra Panacast 50 Intelligent Meeting Space can now leverage AI to create those spaces by setting parameters outside of which the camera does not pick-up and focus on anyone. It also means the camera does not mistakenly focus on people who happen to walk past outside of glass-walled meeting rooms.
“Intelligent Speaker is an opt-in function which enables Microsoft Teams to recognize meeting participants’ voices and tag them to a whole range of AI-powered tools such as Co-Pilot that can produce meeting transcripts, identify and curate conversations by topic, pull-out assigned actions, produce automatic follow-up messaging, and seamlessly synchronize with calendars. It’s a one-time set-up so no-one has to worry about changing preferences or turning something on. All of that good stuff just seamlessly happens.
“Participants can now join meetings with people they haven’t met before and see all of their names. The interaction is greatly enhanced and relationships can be built faster and better. Microsoft Teams is the go-to communication and collaboration platform for so many people now, so we are thrilled to be the first Microsoft-certified video bar system that does it all.”
Brilliantly, all of the Jabra PanaCast 50’s new AI-powered functionality is locally configurable on individual laptops via the Jabra Direct user portal, or managed by an organisation centrally using the Jabra Express application.
“Customers should now see the Jabra PanaCast 50 as an investment for the future,” says Spencer.
“Thanks to this new Microsoft-certified AI-powered functionality, it is not a video bar that will have to be replaced every three years as AI develops further. We have built in capability for it to continue to evolve and for more and more AI features to be added. It’s what our customers have been telling us they want, and we’re excited to be able to give it to them.”
To learn more about how the Jabra PanaCast 50 Video Bar System can help your and your customers’ businesses leverage the benefits of AI-powered video conferencing, visit the website.
