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Meeami Technologies Introduces Solution for Background Noise in Conferencing
In workplace settings, many companies have set aside quiet spaces or “huddle rooms” to get the most out of their videoconferencing investments. These are places where individuals or groups can hold virtual conferences without fear of distracting background noise. Fast-forward to 2020, and most of us are discovering how hard it is to participate in video conferences from home, complete with background noise in the form of other remote-working adults, noisy children, barking dogs and street noise.
To help mitigate the problem, Meeami Technologies recently announced what it’s calling “the industry’s first” context aware deep-learning based noise suppression ClearConference for voice and video calls. Meeami Technologies is a spin-off of the former media processing and real-time communications group of Imagination Technologies.
The technology works by muting more than 100 background noises and maintain speech clarity. It adds no lag while processing (latency less than 10 ms) and maintains user experience even though the sound packets are processed for noise removal, said the company.
“ClearConference has this unique ability to dynamically switch to a low complexity model when in a relatively clean environment that has only a few types of background noises such as at home and in office. This helps extend battery life delivering more noise free conference calls in a single charge,” said Senthil Mani, Chief R&D at MeeamiTech, in a statement.
One company that’s already using the technology in its product is Huddl, which has integrated ClearConference into its Huddl Conferencing app on Android and iOS to give its user base a noise-free conferencing experience.
“With most of the world working from home, it is important that people have a reliable and efficient conversations in conference calls. This means muting all background noise in home conditions such as kitchen noise, baby crying, keyboard clicks and more,” said Krishna Yarlagadda, CEO of Huddl Inc.
ClearConference is available on Windows, Android, iOS and Mac OS.
Edited by Maurice Nagle