The company believes its new product, Auracast Silent Conference, is the first of its kind to be offered on the rental market anywhere in the world.
“Auracast gives us the opportunity to take silent conference into its next phase,” said managing director of Congress Australia, Jeremy Ducklin.
“This is not simply a new set of headphones. It is a new professional rental application for Auracast technology, created around the needs of conferences, exhibitions and live business events.”
Auracast Silent Conference was created to prioritise speech intelligibility and Congress Australia worked with another Australian company to develop the black, noise-cancelling headphones, in consultation with the Bluetooth standards organisation, in order to best suit the business events market.
“We wanted the headphones to look and feel appropriate in a corporate environment,” said Congress Australia’s head of production, Sebastian Ennis.
“They needed to deliver the comfort, audio quality and appearance expected by delegates attending a professional event, rather than resemble the colourful, lightweight headphones commonly associated with silent disco.”
The new solution has 10 channels, allowing for different communications to run through different channels, including multiple concurrent sessions or content in several languages. Running on Bluetooth technology, the Auracast Silent Conference can also be used on delegates’ own compatible devices, including hearing aids, cochlear implants and headphones or earbuds.
Congress Australia has made a point of bringing Auracast Silent Conference to market at a similar price point to existing solutions.
“This is important because the technology should be accessible, not positioned as a specialist luxury product,” said Ennis.
“The aim is to give organisers a significantly better delegate experience at a price level they already understand.”
