Microsoft is acquiring conversational AI company Nuance, a company that offers speech recognition software that is used in 77% of U.S. hospitals, in a deal worth $19.7 billion. According to Microsoft’s announcement, the company plans to integrate Nuance’s solutions with its Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare offering that was introduced last year. Nuance provides conversational artificial […]
Remember last year when everyone scrambled to slap together a home office and tried to find webcams and headsets but they were all sold out? I do, and that was awful. Now, that equipment is more widely available and workers have spent the last year gearing up their home offices and buying webcams, microphones, headsets […]
Video app mmhmm, which markets itself as a more compelling and fun way to communicate via videoconferencing, recently announced a new business tier of service for enterprise users and a Windows open beta. In two separate blog posts last week, the company outlined the new offerings and bundled packages as the company looks to make […]
After a remote work experiment of more than a year, organizations around the world are now beginning to consider what the future of the office will look like, including how hybrid teams will communicate and the tools they will use to do so. There is already a wealth of data that suggests UCC platforms like […]
The videoconferencing industry quickly became competitive in 2020, with Zoom, Microsoft Teams and others bursting onto the scene and threatening to take market share away from companies like Cisco and its unified communications platform Webex, which has long been a mainstay in the enterprise meeting room. Now, it seems that Cisco is trying to regain […]
The U.S. Army and Microsoft are working together on the production of augmented reality headset designed to bring enhanced night vision, situational awareness and information sharing to U.S. soldiers. The Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) was in prototyping and now moves forward to production and rapid fielding, according to announcements from Microsoft and the U.S. […]
Cisco has announced a new features in Webex designed to address hybrid work and wellness issues that increase and promote personal well-being and build better quality connections to employees. The feature, People Insights, comes as Cisco revamps Webex for post-pandemic work life, which includes a larger focus on the wellbeing of employees and a people-first […]
We could be on the brink of a next great disruption to the way we work with teams beginning to plan out a return to the office that will undoubtedly feature more flexibility around where employees do their job. That is at least according to Microsoft, which recently published its 2021 Work Trends Index, the […]
Microsoft has released another feature to keep pace with the torrid videoconferencing market: live transcription with speaker attribution for English-speaking Teams users. According to Microsoft, the new service is a written record of the spoken text that occurs during a meeting. Each speaker is identified and captured automatically in near real time. The produced transcription […]
It has now been a year since our daily lives were changed, our offices were closed and we were sent home to work. I had never truly been a big fan or frequent user of many remote work tools, including videoconferencing and unified communications and collaboration. I’m a journalist by trade and I’ve grown accustom […]
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