Teams with Tom - Volume 6

Product Spotlight: Cisco Room Kit EQX

The Cisco ® Room Kit EQX presents a sophisticated collaboration solution that merges cutting-edge AI-infused video conferencing with versatile mounting options and a distinctive design, delivering a top-tier video conferencing experience for medium-to-large meeting rooms and collaboration spaces.

Offering the flexibility to incorporate external displays alongside purpose-built conferencing hardware components, the Room Kit EQX streamlines the deployment, setup, and management of video conferencing in meeting rooms, ensuring a clutter-free, premium environment.

This comprehensive package delivers unparalleled multi-platform collaboration through Cisco RoomOS or Microsoft Teams Rooms, empowering users to tailor their preferred software experience while maintaining the highest standards for hybrid meeting rooms across all workspaces.

Find out more below from our very own Sven Berckmoes as he caught up with Cisco at ISE 2024.

Enabling you to get more out of your Hybrid Meetings with Copilot in Teams Rooms 

Copilot within teams is designed to make your working day much easier by taking tasks such as summarising responses in a meeting, organising meeting actions and gathering clarifications- all powered by responses sourced from meeting transcripts. By reducing your administrative workload, Copilot allows you to be far more productive.

Maintaining your Identity for Transcription Precision

The fundamental requirement for Copilot within Teams centres on identifying each speaker. To deliver comprehensive meeting summaries, insights, and action items, Copilot relies on a thorough meeting transcript that attributes each contribution to its respective speaker. In hybrid meeting scenarios where speaker recognition is absent, the video and audio feeds for individuals in the room are attributed to the meeting space itself (e.g., Conference Room 1), rather than to the individuals speaking. This lack of speaker attribution presents challenges in tracking individual inputs, synthesising diverse viewpoints, and addressing action items effectively.

Teams Rooms devices leverage cutting-edge speaker recognition technology, which analyses distinctive vocal characteristics such as pitch, tone, and speaking style. By creating a unique voiceprint for each participant, akin to a fingerprint for their voice, Teams Rooms devices enable accurate speaker identification.

Get smarter insights, tasks, and decisions from your meetings

When coupled with Teams Rooms devices, Copilot empowers users to pose natural language inquiries regarding hybrid meeting details and participants, providing immediate responses and insights.

Imagine yourself in a hybrid meeting, where both in-person and remote participants are engaged. Keeping track of the discussion and ensuring alignment among all attendees is crucial. With a simple command to Copilot in Teams, such as "summarise today's discussion," Copilot, powered by Teams Rooms devices, promptly gathers the key highlights while maintaining the identity of each speaker, regardless of their location. This ensures a seamless experience for all meeting participants, whether they are physically present or remote.

Copilot and Teams Rooms unite as the ultimate solution for hybrid meetings, seamlessly integrating AI-driven features and effortless collaboration to tackle challenges and maximise the benefits of hybrid setups. Whether it's pinpointing speakers, extracting insightful meeting data, ensuring inclusivity, or offering clear participant visibility, Copilot and Teams Rooms deliver enriched meeting experiences that elevate your team's collaboration, engagement, and productivity to new heights.

If you want to find out more about the capabilities of Copilot and Teams Rooms then please get in touch!

IT Partners

IT Partners is back next month at Disneyland Paris, come and check out TD SYNNEX on booth J15! If you want a meeting to talk about the capabilities of Microsoft Teams Rooms then please get in touch as I will be there both days on the 13th and 14th of March!

Check out my Q&A with Michel Bouman at ISE 2024!