Yamaha Unified Communications (UC) has announced the new VSP-2, a speech privacy system designed for conferences and meetings to prevent speech privacy problems by effectively reducing human voice intelligibility with customizable sound options.
System components include the VSP-CU2 control unit with user-selectable sound types and volume levels, supporting two, four, or eight VSP-SP2 loudspeakers.
“As more meetings shift from closed to open spaces, maintaining the confidentiality of the information shared during those meetings has become a must,” says Holger Stoltze, senior director of technical sales and marketing at Yamaha UC. “However, sound masking systems have historically introduced noise into the area that’s distracting for everyone — contributing to the prevalence of audio fatigue — and involved lengthy installations that have to go in during construction or require opening walls and ceilings.
“The VSP-2 leverages Yamaha’s decades of engineering expertise to produce masking audio with 65 percent better performance at much lower sound levels for an environment that’s comfortable, private, and can be installed without hours spent working behind walls and in the plenum.”
The VSP-2 can be installed around huddle spaces, open conversation areas, and in front of and between small to medium rooms. The system layers in three key features for more optimal sound masking: Info-Masking technology developed to cover the human voice in unwanted areas with a sound level that’s 8 dB less than conventional systems’ environmental audio with four types of sound that is mixed to the speech sound masker; and four types of sound effect audio that are added to unobtrusively distract others from unwanted conversation.
From the control unit, users can power the system on and off, select their preferred sound effect audio (guitar, piano, music box, and digital device) and environmental sound (forest, brook, urban clatter, and air conditioner), and set the performance and volume level for a personalized room environment.
The discreet loudspeakers are designed to be simple to mount to the ceiling or wall with the included mounting hardware and cable (non-plenum rated). The back of the control unit offers a loudspeaker switch (2, 4, or 8) and four EQ options based on the configuration of the loudspeakers.
