Crestron Launches Tabletop Conferencing System for the Work from Anywhere Workforce

Crestron announced Crestron Flex MM, a compact, integrated audio and video conferencing solution that is an easy-to-use, deploy, and manage tabletop meeting and collaboration system. Supporting native Microsoft Teams or Zoom Rooms software, the new Crestron Flex MM solution is ideal for newly converted or dedicated small workspaces both in the corporate office and the home office. This solution, optimized for work-from-anywhere, offers high-performance audio and video quality in a compact footprint.

Dolby Laboratories announced a new Dolby Voice Huddle, a conferencing solution designed specifically to address the challenges of video meetings in smaller – and often custom – spaces. This compact solution features Dolby intelligent acoustic technology which calibrates based on the TV and room space to deliver optimum audio quality without the need for additional speakers and soundbars. Dolby Voice Huddle joins the previously released Dolby Voice Room and Dolby Voice Room Pro solutions to complete the Rooms with Dolby Voice video conferencing product portfolio.

Otter.ai, a well funded startup active in the audio transcription market introduced today the availability of Live Video Meeting Notes, which enables English-speaking participants to open a secure, live interactive transcript directly from a video conference, or after a meeting. Otter.ai Live Video Meeting Notes enables users to access some of the same real-time features available in Otter Voice Meeting Notes, launched directly from a video conferencing platform.

Lifesize, the video collaboration and meeting solutions company, and Serenova, a leading contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) provider, announced a merger, creating a new combined business that expands solutions to serve more than 10,000 customers worldwide. Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm with over $6.7 billion of capital under management, is the financial sponsor of the merger and will continue to invest and support the combined business to address the $60 billion unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) market.

Video conferencing technology specialists AVer Information announced that it is expanding its portfolio of solutions to include the new AVer VB342 soundbar. The integrated design is an all-in-one USB camera/audio solution, combining all audio and video signals suited for meeting/huddle spaces with up to seven attendees. The soundbar format is viewed as an ideal approach to modern huddle rooms, so why not integrating also the camera in a single system?