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What Are Sound Masking Speakers?

What Are Sound Masking Speakers?

Jay Brant • Apr 11, 2025

Paging speakers, also known as PA speakers, are most often used for one of three purposes: voice broadcasts, emergency alerts, and background music. But there’s another use for paging speakers that can be vital in certain situations: sound masking. Sound masking speakers are paging speakers that play ambient background sound to camouflage distracting sounds, in parti …
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Using a Speakerphone for Video Conferencing
Video conferencing is the most natural form of distant communications we’ve developed so far. When you want to establish a professional video conferencing space with pro-level video and audio, there are many devices that might help. Take speakerphones. A convenient device for improving audio quality on video calls is the speakerphone, often called a speaker puck beca …
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Grandstream WP856 Is a Wi-Fi Smartphone with a Built-In Scanner
Sometimes it’s great to have a device that can handle basically everything. The smartphone is the best example: map, key, flashlight, weather tracker, newspaper, music player, TV, web browser, video game console… oh yeah, and it’s a phone, too. But sometimes it’s nice to have a dedicated device that does what it needs to do better than these catch-all s …
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