{"id":3938,"date":"2020-03-02T14:03:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T22:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2020-03-02T14:03:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T22:03:30","slug":"the-most-of-poly-acoustic-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/the-most-of-poly-acoustic-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"TECHNOTE: Making the Most of Poly Acoustic Fence"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the explosive growth of the open office environment, keeping noise and chatter under control when talking on the phone is critical for sounding professional and staying focused.\u00a0 According to recent future of work research<\/a>*, over 50% of office workers report office noise as a significant burden to their overall satisfaction and productivity.\u00a0 And it goes further than that.\u00a0 With all that noise going on within your own offices, have you ever stopped to think about the listeners on the \u201cfar side\u201d of your telephone conversations?\u00a0 Put yourself in the place of who you’re talking with: have you ever called into your bank to speak with an agent, only to be distracted by the sounds of their ringing phones and chatter in the background?\u00a0 If only there was a solution\u2026 \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n

One of the pioneering features developed by Poly is called the \u201cAcoustic Fence,\u201d a way of preventing surrounding noise and conversation from derailing your conversations.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how it works<\/h4>\n

Unlike conventional devices that use their microphones the same way regardless of conditions, Acoustic Fence continuously explores the differences in sound between multiple microphones to find who is the main talker, and then selects, combines, and mutes the remaining ones to do the most targeted job of sending just the main talker’s conversation to the far-end listener.\u00a0 The resulting impact is that the listener hears the talker without interruption; any background sounds are heard just in snippets that don\u2019t connect to make another distracting dialog. \u00a0Background sounds and talking are sliced and blanked by the cadences of your own speaking, rendering your voice clear to the far end and nearby conversations incomprehensible.<\/p>\n

While technology is not quite at the point that it can reliably filter one active voice from another in real time, by chopping up the distraction in this way Acoustic Fence takes advantage of the human\u2019s built-in perceptual filter: if you can\u2019t hear a whole phrase, you can\u2019t make sense of it and won\u2019t be distracted by it.\u00a0 Poly combines Acoustic Fence with the natural performance of low-noise directional microphones and some very clever acoustic designs to deliver the most effective performance on the market.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s better, Acoustic Fence is not locked into a single performance level: it uses settings that can be changed by the system manager to match it to individual environments.<\/p>\n

Poly is shipping Acoustic Fence in a growing number of its products today, including desktop phones and video systems.<\/p>\n

To experience Acoustic Fence for yourself, talk with your Poly representative for a demonstration.<\/p>\n

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*Data from \u201cAll Your Employees Are Distracted.\u201d April 24, 2019. Future Workplace.<\/em><\/p>\n

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