Cisco is planning to acquire Campbell, CA headquartered BabbleLabs, Inc. With this acquisition Cisco can help users to control unwanted noise in meetings--be it from barking dogs, lawn mowers, a car alarm or sirens.
BabbleLabs to distinguish human speech from unwanted noise use advanced AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques and enhance the quality of communications and conferencing applications. BabbleLabs goes beyond existing noise suppression technology solutions by:
Distinguishing speech from background noise;
Removing background noise in real-time; and
Enhancing the voice to elevate communication, regardless of language.
"A great meeting experience starts with great audio," said Jeetu Patel, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Security and Applications Business Unit. "We're thrilled to welcome BabbleLabs' team of highly skilled engineers. Their technology is going to provide our customers with yet another important innovation – automatically removing unwanted noise - to continue enabling exceptional Webex meeting experiences."
Along with BabbleLabs, Cisco will bring native noise removal capability to its entire Collaboration portfolio. Primarily, Cisco will focus on integrating BabbleLabs to deliver a best-in-class audio experience to Webex Meetings users.
"BabbleLabs is excited to become part of Cisco and the Collaboration Group," said Chris Rowen, CEO and co-founder of BabbleLabs. "The Cisco team shares our passion about speech as the core of collaboration and communication. Cisco's Collaboration platform will enable us to quickly scale our exceptional speech enhancement technology for the hundreds of millions of Webex users."
Key Facts:
The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of Cisco's FY21, subject to customary closing conditions and required regulatory approvals.
Upon completion of the transaction, the BabbleLabs team will join the Cisco Collaboration Group, led by Javed Khan, senior vice president and general manager, which is part of the Cisco Security and Applications Business, led by Jeetu Patel.
Cisco Collaboration is trusted by 95 percent of the Fortune 500.
The BabbleLabs acquisition builds on Cisco's investments in AI technology and talent over the last three years - all designed to make collaboration more intelligent, secure, effective and productive. Cisco is uniquely focused on every phase of work and meetings. This includes: before meetings by serving insights into people attending the meeting, or being able to see who's on before you join and more; during meetings through optimized audio and video, blurred or custom background across any OS, touchless sharing of ideas and files, automated note taking, live transcription, and more; as well as after meetings by automatically sending meeting notes with spoken action items.
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