When it comes to video conferencing, it feels natural to expect that artificial intelligence (AI) can substantially improve the experience. Indeed, newer versions of video conferencing systems such as Onpassive’s o-Connect, are increasingly incorporating AI solutions. These systems utilize machine learning (ML) to optimize performance and provide new features. So how does this impact your conferencing experience? We’ll now explore the top 10 benefits of AI in video conferencing meetings.
AI in video conferencing enhances audio and video quality
AI-enabled video conferencing solutions, such as o-Connect, improve the audio and video experiences for meeting attendees.
Audio quality enhancements
- Instead of relying on human moderators to adjust audio volume, AI technology can identify and adjust microphones that are not performing optimally.
- The AI technology can identify and cancel irrelevant background noise; ensuring that participants are heard clearly.
- The AI technology can also automatically balance audio volume equally for all participants, thereby avoiding laborious manual adjustment.
Video quality enhancements
- Similarly, the AI technology can identify conference rooms and video endpoints that are dimly lit or have distracting backgrounds. It then normalizes the lighting and removes bright distracting elements to produce a uniformly-lit video feed.
- AI also enables video parity, which makes all attendee’s video in the conference screen clear and sharp, even though they originated from different locations.
AI in video conferencing enables real-time language translation
One of the most notable benefits of AI in video conferencing is real-time language translation. This technology can be used to translate audio or text-based content from one language to another in real time. This is especially useful for international teams that may not all be fluent in a common language. One outstanding example of an AI-powered video conferencing system with real-time language translation is Onpassive’s o-Connect. This tool offers real-time language translation for a wide range of languages, thereby reducing miscommunication and increasing meeting productivity.
AI in video conferencing enables real-time voice-to-text transcription
Another key benefit of AI-powered video conferencing is a real-time voice-to-text transcription service. This can help teams follow along with meeting content even if they missed a few minutes or prefer to review a transcript at a later time. This type of AI-enabled feature is different from real-time language translation, but they often come together. For example, Onpassive’s o-Connect offers a voice-to-text transcription service in multiple languages, thereby bridging vernacular gaps between participants and helping those with hearing-difficulties to participate effectively.
AI enables background noise cancellation in video conferencing
Background noise during virtual meetings can be very distracting and annoying. It can come from both the presenter’s and participant’s ends. A great benefit of AI in video conferencing systems is the ability to cancel background noise. The system applies AI technology to participants microphones to actively identify and remove distracting noises. This eliminates distractions, boosts audio clarity and increases meeting productivity.
AI enables real-time facial recognition in virtual conferencing
AI-powered facial recognition technology uses AI to analyze your face on a photograph or video to identify unique features that distinguish you from all others. The result is your facial signature or faceprint – similar to fingerprint. This technology is being used in various industries for identity authentication.
AI-powered video conferencing solutions such as Onpassive’s o-Connect, use this technology in two ways: To automatically identify attendees and display relevant information about them, and to secure meetings by admitting only attendees whose facial identity has been authenticated.
AI in video conferencing enables enhanced security features
Virtual meeting solutions that incorporate AI often also offer additional security features for enhanced data protection and meeting security. As mentioned above, AI-enabled facial recognition technology is used for real-time biometric authentication to prevent unauthorized access. Furthermore, AI is used to identify and prevent data security risks when sensitive information is shared during meetings.
AI in video conferencing enables automated meeting scheduling
Scheduling virtual meetings manually for participants who live across multiple time zones, or for employees who have different work schedules, can be daunting and inefficient.
AI-powered video conferencing solution use digital calendars to quickly determine optimal meeting times that best accommodate all participants, and automatically sends out invitation. This system makes it easy to handle changes such as meeting postponement and rescheduling.
AI powers enhanced data analytics to drive productivity for virtual conferencing
A true AI-powered conferencing system should have an AI-enhanced data analytics tool. With this, it can evaluate key metrics that measure meeting productivity, including the following:
- Meeting duration
- Number of attendees
- Time spent on each agenda item.
- How much each participant contributes to the discussions.
- Data on audio quality, which the AI uses to stabilize call connections to improve quality.
This information can help identify and fix potential productivity issues which can help improve future meeting experience.
AI in video conferencing powers engaging presentation delivery using whiteboarding
Whiteboarding is a popular tool for visualizing ideas. It can be used to brainstorm ideas visually, create flow charts, or create a mind map. However, it can be challenging to do this in real time during a virtual meeting. This is where AI comes in. An AI-powered conferencing solution such as o-Connect, offers AI-enhanced whiteboarding which allow presenters to illustrate their ideas by writing on, drawing on and adding graphics to the board for all to see. This makes the presentation more engaging and productive.
AI in video conferencing enables effective meeting summaries
Without AI, video conferencing summaries are usually done by manually taking notes and then typing out the information. This is slow, tedious, time-consuming and inefficient. By leveraging AI algorithms, video conferencing systems can automatically generate summaries of meetings within minutes, saving time and resources. The summaries can include:
- A meeting transcript summarizing the main points discussed.
- A list of key talking points
- A list of action items
- A List of important decisions that were made.
Thus, AI feature makes video conferencing more effective and saves time and money.
Conclusion
Video conferencing solutions have become a critical part of business operations in recent years. AI promises to substantially improve the quality and productivity of these virtual meeting even further. From superior audio and video quality to real-time language translation, AI is making virtual meetings more productive and collaborative. Choosing a virtual meeting solution such as Onpassive’s o-connect, which incorporates AI and gives best overall value, will give you optimal results.
