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Adding Dolby Voice to Dolby.IO a 'Game-Changer' for Group Calls: Colliers

The Dolby.IO interactivity platform is a “game changer” that expands the company’s addressable market and creates a recurring revenue-based business, Colliers's Steven Frankel wrote investors Monday. The platform was updated last week to include Dolby Voice, which boosts the user…

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experience, especially in group calls, the analyst noted. He linked to a demo of interactive application programming interfaces showing participants on a group video call talking -- and being heard -- simultaneously, a top complaint of half-duplex audio used in videoconferencing today. The technology, with spatial audio and noise suppression, is said to reduce background noise and echo commonly heard on group calls. Early adopters of Dolby.IO have used it for podcasting, telemedicine applications and collaboration apps. Frankel believes incorporating Voice into Dolby.IO will better position the company to find partners in the united-communications-as-a-service space, “a likely key to scaling the [Dolby.IO] business.”