Neat and Shure partner to bring advanced audio to Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android

Who should listen: Microsoft 365 service owners and AV/UC professionals specifying Teams Rooms on Android for large, glass-heavy or reconfigurable spaces, and anyone assessing device refresh timing ahead of the 2025 end-of-support cut-off or looking at room analytics and signage on Android endpoints.

Guest: Luke Kannel and Tyler Troutman — Product Specialist (Neat) and Market Development Specialist, Strategic Market Development (Shure), Neat / Shure

Recorded live at Comms vNext, Luke Kannel of Neat and Tyler Troutman of Shure explain how Shure's ceiling, table and wireless microphone systems now integrate with Neat Bar Pro for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android. Luke also covers Neat's Bar Generation 2, Center, and the new Pulse APIs and App Hub.

Many thanks to Neat, sponsor of this episode.

Key insights

• Bar Generation 2 keeps the same mount as the original Bar, so an existing install can be swapped out without re-rigging — saving install cost as well as supporting Neat's sustainability position. It adds better video, improved sensors and framing for up to eight individuals. ▶ 0:00
• The refresh driver for Bar Gen 2 is silicon, not features: many devices in the space go end of support around the end of September 2025, and the new chipset is intended to carry future Android and Teams releases. ▶ 0:00
• Center is now GA and shipping. Its value is gaze/orientation detection — working out where someone in the room is looking so the far end feels connected in rooms of 8–12 people where a single wide shot falls short. ▶ 0:00
• The Shure-Neat integration is deliberately trivial to deploy: a toggle in the Neat device settings screen and a single USB-C to USB-B cable into Neat Bar Pro — not a lashed-together workaround, which has historically been the problem with third-party audio on Android. ▶ 0:00
• On the Shure side, drop a P300 DSP and an MXA 902 ceiling array into Shure Designer 6.0, press one button, and all Dante routing, configuration and DSP settings are generated automatically. ▶ 0:00
• The dividing line for adding Shure audio to a Neat room: large or reconfigurable spaces and hard acoustic environments — glass-walled conference rooms where reverberation is bad enough that a microphone needs to be out over the participants. ▶ 0:00
• Shure's MXW neXt 2 wireless system (handheld, bodypack/lavalier, plus a Microsoft-certified boundary mic) has access point, charger and full DSP built in over USB; mute sync via Neat is expected in a future Neat build, targeting training rooms, K-12 and higher education. ▶ 0:00
• Neat Pulse now exposes cloud APIs, live at launch with Utelogy and Neowit, reporting air quality and occupancy for mixed-vendor estates; the new App Hub lets customers load or bake in Android apps — mostly digital signage and enhanced whiteboarding — and pair them with Neat Share to push a custom whiteboard into a Teams meeting with one button press. ▶ 0:00

Insights summarised by AI from the episode transcript, reviewed by the Empowering.Cloud team.

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