One perennial issue with organizing a conference call the traditional way is that either it can be hard to hear the person on the other end or the mic is not clearly picking up your voice; as well as the messy cable setup that comes with it. While Jabra has long been offering wireless conferencing solutions with noise cancellation features, Shenzhen eMeet Tech Co. from China aims to help address that problem with the help of artificial intelligence.

The company is fairly new to the voice segment: it launched the OfficeCore M1 conference speakerphone in November last year, its first product geared toward the enterprise market. Early in June, eMeet made a bold attempt at making inroads into the smart speaker segment by releasing an improved second-generation OfficeCore conference speaker to the market, the M2, with the main selling point being its AI-powered algorithm for suppressing noise and echo, which marks a major upgrade from the OfficeCore M1. The first-gen speakerphone relies only on the VocalFusion technology developed by XMOS, a provider of embedded voice and audio interface solutions. In a nutshell, VocalFusion uses far-field voice recognition to identify the human voice.