Rants & rAVes — Episode 1500: You Fixed the Camera. Why Does Your Meeting Room Still Sound Bad?
Everybody wants better cameras in their meeting rooms — but what happens when the video looks great and nobody can actually understand the conversation?
In this episode of Rants & rAVes, I sat down with HP Poly‘s Jim Smith to talk about why audio is still one of the biggest pain points in collaboration spaces and where organizations are still getting meeting room design wrong.
We also get into beam-forming microphones, intelligent noise suppression, voice tracking and how AI-driven tools are helping teams better measure and improve meeting quality without replacing the fundamentals of good room design.
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