Biamp has piloted its Parlé Voice Lift system at Emory College of Arts and Sciences in Atlanta, Georgia, allowing instructors to be reinforced without handheld or wearable microphones.
Trialled in the college’s Anthropology Room 303, the system is designed to reinforce an instructor’s voice as they move around the presentation area, using Parlé TCM Beamtracking ceiling microphones and TesiraFORTÉ X processors already installed. Biamp systems are in place across more than 120 teaching spaces at the college, including around 300 ceiling microphones and TesiraFORTÉ X 400 and X 800 processors, so the pilot required no new microphone infrastructure, the company says.
The college, which serves more than 5,000 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, has avoided traditional voice lift in many rooms because of the upkeep involved in handheld microphones, bodypacks, charging docks and batteries.
Griffin Fisher, manager of classroom technology services at Emory College of Arts and Sciences, said: “Whether we go with rechargeable or disposable batteries, there are different issues we find. We have not introduced traditional voice lift in a lot of spaces because of those challenges.”
Fisher added: “There are no handhelds, no disposable batteries, no recharging docks. It’s like magic.”
Joe Andrulis, executive vice president of corporate development at Biamp, added: “The pilot delivers natural voice reinforcement that increases presenter confidence while remaining virtually invisible to faculty, students, and IT staff alike. Following its success, Biamp is helping Emory evaluate additional deployments, including a large administrative meeting room used by university leadership, extending the Biamp ecosystem that also supports conferencing, lecture capture, and hybrid learning across campus.”
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