Sennheiser Introduces TruVoicelift for TeamConnect Ceiling 2
TruVoicelift ensures clear in-room audio for business applications
Used widely in corporations and higher education institutions, TeamConnect Ceiling 2 has become a leading microphone solution for conferencing audio in business and distance learning applications. Sennheiser is now offering a free firmware update for its ceiling microphone array. The free update brings TeamConnect Ceiling 2 into the heart of a voice amplification system: TruVoicelift ensures clearly audible in-room audio for classrooms, lecture halls, and boardrooms, with easily controllable features that make for a pleasant and clear listening experience.
According to Vipin Pungalia, Director, Professional Segment, Sennheiser India, “We are extremely elated to announce the free firmware update – TruVoicelift to amplify the sound. With businesses and educational institutions gradually opening, it has become imperative to introduce touchless AV technologies to create a safer work and learning environment for professionals and students alike. Due to this, we have introduced TruVoicelift which ensures clear audible in-room audio for boardrooms with many easily controllable features that make for a pleasant and clear listening experience which reduces potential hygiene risks by encouraging social distancing. Collaborative tools like these enable people to connect seamlessly from anywhere in the world.”
A free update for clear in-room audio
For existing TeamConnect Ceiling 2 (TCC2) implementations, users can now add the TruVoicelift functionality by installing the free firmware update (1.6.4) via the new version of the Sennheiser Control Cockpit app (4.3.0).
New users gain two solutions in one from the start and will have the ease of installation, freedom of movement and clear audio that TCC2 offers. Depending on the size and configuration of the room, additional TeamConnect Ceiling 2 microphones can be installed as audience mics, thus creating a completely touchless microphone solution that reduces potential hygiene risks.
Clever features for better listening and presentation experience
The free Sennheiser Control Cockpit software allows to determine priority zones for voice amplification to focus on the speaker (green = selected priority zone)
TruVoicelift is powered by an advanced frequency shift algorithm that delivers a few crucial extra dB of gain. At the same time, TruVoicelift also includes a “feedback prevention mute” function if levels get too loud.
During pauses in speaking, if a pre-defined audio threshold is not reached, a noise gate will be activated that mutes TeamConnect Ceiling 2 to prevent any background noise from being amplified.
All TruVoicelift settings can be controlled via the Sennheiser Control Cockpit app. The app also allows users to easily create “priority zones”, i.e. areas where audio is predominantly picked up. This is helpful for any set-ups where audio usually comes from a defined place, such as the front of a lecture hall. Also, users can define “advanced exclusion zones”, enabling to target and exclude noise sources with pinpoint accuracy, such as air conditioning or ventilation equipment.
Jens Werner, Portfolio Manager in Sennheiser’s Business Communication Division, summarizes: “The free TruVoicelift update for TCC2 expands the feature set of the conferencing microphone array to a completely new usage scenario for both corporations and education institutions. TruVoicelift helps to establish pleasant audio levels in a room, and lets speakers be confident that they can be perfectly understood throughout the entire auditorium.”