Effortless Video Conferencing Meets Smart Control
The Yamaha CS-500 is a cutting-edge video conferencing system that’s been engineered to seamlessly integrate into your professional environment. Powered by Yamaha’s AI-fueled SoundCap Eye technology, this premium system can automatically pinpoint the locations of meeting participants for lock-tight tracking. The CS-500 includes a built-in 4K camera with three modes of Smart Framing to keep presenters visible, while Hexa Microphone beamforming enables it to accurately capture words across a 20–110-degree range. The CS-500 leverages sophisticated digital signal processing to ensure maximum voice intelligibility on the receiving end, including automatic, real-time adjustments to video tracking, gain levels, room EQ, noise reduction, and echo cancellation. Furthermore, the CS-500 is a cinch to use: to get your meeting underway, all you need to do is connect it to your computer or TV via USB, HDMI, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth. Thanks to its diverse range of installation options, this feature-packed system makes any space ready for state-of-the-art remote collaboration. With certified compatibility for Microsoft Teams and Zoom, alongside comprehensive Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, iOS, and Android compatibility, the Yamaha CS-500 is your comprehensive solution for intelligent and effortless multiplatform video conferencing.
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AI-driven SoundCap Eye technology
The CS-500 leverages Yamaha’s revolutionary SoundCap Eye technology, which uses both voice and camera pickup to pinpoint participant locations for truly next-level position tracking. Specifically, SoundCap Eye gleans the physical location of a presenter from the CS-500’s built-in 4K camera while using the onboard Hexa Microphone to track their audio source location as they speak. Moreover, SoundCap Eye unifies three of Yamaha’s acclaimed technologies: Face Focus Beamforming, Self-silence, and Self-volume. Face Focus Beamforming employs AI to track participants’ faces and suppress audio coming from anywhere other than the person captured on camera. Self-silence uses Yamaha’s HVAD (Human Voice Activity Detection) technology to automatically mute the unit’s microphone when the corresponding participant isn’t speaking to cut down on extraneous noise. Finally, Self-volume automatically adjusts a participant’s volume in relation to the room’s ambient noise to ensure an optimal speaker output level.
Intelligent Smart Framing function
We rely heavily on remote conferencing here at Sweetwater to help us communicate with our customers and vendor partners all around the world. If you’re in the same camp as us, you’ll be immediately impressed by the Yamaha CS-500’s next-level Smart Framing function. So, what’s Smart Framing? In a nutshell, this feature recognizes participants in the room who are speaking and automatically frames the video signal for the remote participants. You get three Smart Framing modes: Group, Speaker, and Individual. Group frames all the in-person participants, Speaker frames the main presenter, and Individual enables you to frame any participant you specify. This function provides you with a generous maximum framing distance of nearly 15 feet, allowing you to deploy it in small huddle rooms and midsize conference rooms with equal assurance.
Powerful digital signal processing
In addition to SoundCap Eye, the CS-500 benefits from a whole host of sophisticated digital signal processing algorithms, ensuring crystal-clear results in a gamut of scenarios. For example, HVAD (Human Voice Activity Detection) technology enables multiple speakers in the same room to be heard clearly — a must-have for large conference rooms, crowded lecture halls, and packed seminars. The CS-500 is also equipped with Adaptive Echo Canceller, Noise Reduction, Automatic Tracking, Automatic Gain Control, Automatic Room EQ, and Dereverberation, ensuring clean, high-quality voice reproduction.
Yamaha CS-500 Features:
- Comprehensive camera and microphone system seamlessly integrates into nearly any office conference environment
- AI-fueled SoundCap Eye technology pinpoints the locations of meeting participants for lock-tight tracking
- 4K camera includes 3 modes of Smart Framing to keep presenters visible
- Hexa Microphone beamforming captures words with the utmost accuracy
- Sophisticated digital signal processing ensures maximum voice intelligibility
- HVAD enables multiple speakers in the same room to be heard clearly
- Equipped with Adaptive Echo Canceller, Noise Reduction, Automatic Tracking, Automatic Gain Control, and Dereverberation
- Automatic Room EQ ensures optimal sound in any space
- Connecting to your computer via USB or HDMI automatically starts the collaboration
- User-friendly design provides fast, intuitive remote communication
- Included USB-C to USB-A and HDMI cables, as well as ergonomic remote control and PSU to support multiple installation options
