The Audio Challenge Behind Accurate AI Meeting Notes

DM NAX® Intelligent Audio: One Platform. Every Space.

If your team uses Microsoft® Copilot® or Zoom AI Companion® for meeting notes, meeting room audio has to do more than sound clear to the people on the call. It also has to be clean enough for AI to transcribe accurately, which is a different, higher bar.

That’s the challenge DM NAX® Intelligent Audio is built to meet, and it does it with an approach Crestron describes as “One Platform. Every Space.”: one audio processor, the DM-NAX-AP-100, running the same network-based platform in every room, scaled up or down to fit. As a Crestron partner, CTI designs, installs and supports DM NAX rooms, so every space gets that intelligible audio from day one.

One Processor, Three Ways to Build a Room

Every DM NAX® room starts with the AP-100. From there, you choose one of three supported configurations, depending on the room:

• Ceiling: up to four Saros® DM-NAX-IC4A-W active ceiling speakers, each able to power up to three additional passive IC4P-W speakers, paired with up to four Sennheiser® TCC M Plus in-ceiling microphones.
• Hybrid: the same Saros® active ceiling speakers paired with up to four DM-NAX-POD-MIC tabletop mic pods, a good fit for larger rooms that want overhead speaker coverage and mic pickup on the table.
• Tabletop: up to eight DM-NAX-POD-MIC-SPK and/or DM-NAX-POD-MIC pods on the table, no ceiling installation required.

That range means a huddle room, a standard conference room, and a full boardroom can all run on the same platform.

The Speakers and Mic Pods That Connect to the AP-100

Each configuration is built from a small set of devices that connect to the AP-100, and each one has a different job:

• Saros® DM-NAX-IC4A-W and IC4P-W (ceiling speakers): no external amp needed. Each active IC4A-W speaker can power up to three passive IC4P-W speakers, and the AP-100 supports up to eight active Saros® speakers. The fit for rooms that want broad, even coverage from the ceiling without adding separate amplifier hardware.
• DM-NAX-POD-MIC-SPK (mic and speaker pod): a 360°, 12-element beamforming microphone array with a built-in speaker in one tabletop unit, up to eight pods per AP-100. The fit for rooms that want mic pickup and sound reinforcement from the table, without installing anything in the ceiling.
• DM-NAX-POD-MIC (mic-only pod): the same 360° beamforming array as the POD-MIC-SPK, without the speaker. Pairs with Saros® ceiling speakers for rooms that want audio coming from overhead while keeping the tabletop clean, with just a low-profile mic pod on the table.

What the AP-100 Actually Does

The AP-100 is a compact processor with onboard DSP: acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), automatic gain control (AGC), auto-mixing, matrix mixing, parametric EQ, and delay compression. That’s the processing that keeps a call sounding clear, and that gives AI meeting assistants consistent audio quality to work with, without anyone in the room adjusting anything. It connects to a collaboration platform over USB-C®, and it’s built on Crestron’s DM NVX® AV-over-IP foundation, so microphones and speakers connect over standard CAT cabling and get power and data over a single PoE connection.

One detail that matters for IT: the AP-100 has two network ports. One connects to the corporate network. The other is a private, PoE-powered connection dedicated to the room’s microphones and speakers, which keeps audio traffic separate from everything else on the network. Devices on that private network auto-discover and configure themselves, which is what gets a room from installation to first audio in minutes rather than requiring a lot of manual setup. CTI’s engineers coordinate this network setup with your IT team, so rooms go live without surprises.

Managed the Same Way, Room by Room

Every AP-100 is set up and managed from one browser dashboard, with no separate software to install. From that dashboard, you get system status at a glance, one-touch volume and mute controls, and health reporting for every connected microphone and speaker, including network status, IP address, signal presence, and firmware version. XiO Cloud® adds remote management for teams that want it.

Why This Matters

For a facilities or IT team managing more than one room, the appeal isn’t any single feature. It’s that a huddle room and a boardroom can run on the same platform, go through the same setup process, and get monitored from the same dashboard, all while giving AI meeting tools the clean audio they need to actually be useful.

AI meeting tools are only as good as the audio they hear. As a Crestron partner, CTI designs, installs and supports DM NAX Intelligent Audio rooms, from huddle spaces to boardrooms. Our team works with your IT department on the network setup, gets each room to first audio quickly, and keeps it running with nationwide certified technicians and ongoing support through CTI Complete. Not sure which configuration fits your spaces? Talk to a CTI specialist or book a demo today.

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