Yamaha CS-800 Video Soundbar

Collaborate and connect easily without hassle with the Yamaha CS-800, a video soundbar equipped with a 4K camera, Hexa beamforming microphone, and full-range speaker for comfortable and productive remote meetings in huddle rooms and offices. Using the positioning data provided from both the voice and camera pickup, Yamaha's new SoundCap Eye AI technology pinpoints participant's locations and blocks out unwanted background noise in potentially noisy environments, ensuring that everyone in the room can be heard clearly by the participants on the far end of the call—it's like having a skilled movie director, cameraman, and sound director working together behind the scenes.

Automatic display launch with easy-to-follow instructions allow for a quick jump into collaboration sessions. With just one USB connection to their laptop in BYOD environments, users can be up and running in no time. A multifunction remote with a large mute button on top allows easy control, configuration, and simple muting of your conferencing application. Installation is simple with three different options to suit your room setup. You can either use the included tabletop stand or wallmount bracket, or combine the wall mount bracket with a VESA bracket (available separately) for a TV mount.

• The microphone is arranged in an hexagonal array. This shape creates a focused microphone beam that more accurately captures words spoken during conversations, producing a clearer and more precise sound compared to traditional video sound bars.
• Face information from the video stream is also collected, allowing the beam to focus on active speakers within the meeting area.

SoundCap Eye utilizes the camera and audio pickup to distinguish voices vs. ambient noise in open meeting areas. This is achieved by unifying three of Yamaha's proprietary technologies to optimize video conferencing: Face Focus Beamforming, Self-Silence, and Self-Volume Balancer.

Face Focus Beamforming

• Face Focus Beamforming picks up your conversations while reducing the distracting noise around you. The CS-800 camera tracks the faces of participants in the meeting area using AI and limits the audio beams to these locations.

Self-Silence

• The CS-800 includes a self-silence function that automatically mutes the microphone when the conference participants are not speaking.

Self-Volume Balancer

• With the self-volume balancer function, the CS-800 automatically adjusts the volume, according to the ambient noise, to keep an appropriate speaker volume level.

The facial-focus beamforming function recognizes people in the room who are speaking and automatically frames the video signal for remote participants. Smart Framing supports 3 modes:

• Group: Frame all participants
• Speaker: Frame main speaker
• Individual: Frame specified person user selects

• The 90 dB, full-range, built-in speaker of the CS-800 is optimized for voice, so that you can hear the remote participants clearly, anywhere in the room.

Video / audio / screen sharing starts with one action and is easy and simple to connect with a single USB cable.

• The CS-800 recognizes users entering the room and can automatically wake up the display via HDMI-CEC.
• The CS-800 displays a guide on the room display, explaining how to use the room technology and start a meeting.
• All functionalities: audio, camera, and display (DisplayLink) are connected to user’s laptop via just one USB cable (included).

• The multifunction remote allows easy control and configuration. On top, there is the large mute button, allowing simple muting of your calls.
• Hidden underneath are some more advanced controls, allowing interaction with the On-Screen Display, and manual control of the camera, audio, and feature activation.

The CS-800 is compatible with all popular UC software providers for current or future use. It is Zoom-certified.

• USB port for computer connection
• HDMI port for display connection
• Bluetooth for mobile-device connection
• Wi-Fi for network connection