What is Connect?
Designed with simplicity, scalability and accessibility in mind, Connect enables you to capture, stream and share your meetings online. Automated camera control and a user-friendly interface make recording and streaming quick and easy. Viewers can watch your meetings on any device, and access slides, documents and transcripts alongside the video. You can share meetings on Facebook, YouTube and other social media platforms.
Capture
Designed to be user-friendly, save resurces, and scalable.
Capture any meeting
Recording and live streaming meetings of any size is easy with Connect. Automated camera control allows one operator to control up to 8 cameras, effortlessly capture high-quality video and audio, incluiding hybrid meetings, and live stream meetings at the touch of a button.
Scalability
Whether you need a compact portable setup or a fully integrated chamber system, Connect is designed to scale seamlessly to meet your meeting requirements:
- StreamBox: our smallest and most portable solution, automates speaker tagging and transcription.
- Portable and Semi-Portable Systems: Ideal for flexible setups that require mobility without sacrificing quality.
- Fixed Installations: Bespoke solutions tailored to large chambers or permanent venues.
Capture hybrid meetings
Connect system easily captures hybrid meetings, ensuring in-room and remote participants can see and hear each other.
We developed HybridLink for Teams as a fully integrated solution to offer equal opportunities for all participants—whether present or a Teams remote user—to engage, vote, and actively participate in the meeting.
Save on resources
Connect works with Modern.Gov and CMIS, the leading providers in paperless governance, to simplify all aspects of meeting management. Webcast booking syncs automatically from the committee management system, and all documents, agenda points and metadata are automatically synced too.
Broadcast
Stream your meetings live or on-demand to enhance transparency and accessibility.
Powerful meeting tools
With Connect’s simple web-based administration system, you can set up meetings in advance, add agenda points, attach slides and documents, and set up speaker profiles. Private meetings can be hidden from public view or password protected.
Rich viewer experience
Connect meetings are streamed to a website that can be fully customised to your brand. Viewers can watch your meetings on any device, and access slides, documents, speaker profiles, transcripts, live chat and interactive voting alongside the video.
We also offer Dual language to switch seamlessly between English and Welsh, with the entire microsite translated and webcast audio provided in the selected language.
Best-in-class accessibility
Connect has been meticulously designed to support features like captions, transcripts, adaptive video playback, screen-reader and keyboard control. It’s compliant with the WCAG 2.2 AA standard and was awarded Accessibility Accreditation by ZooNou.
In-depth analytics
Connect includes a powerful analytics suite that enables you to monitor viewer numbers, viewing times, referring websites and content interactions.
Share
Extend your reach and ensure inclusivity by streaming to your audience where they are
Social media integration
With Connect you can live stream your meetings to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media platforms. You can set alerts that post automatically to your Facebook and Twitter feeds before, during and after a live stream.
Embed on your website
Enhance accessibility and ensure your meetings remain transparent by offering the public everything they need in one place: meeting calendars, agenda points, documents, and the live stream or video recording embedded on your website.
Benefits
Simple operation – saves time and resources
Capture any meeting, also hybrid meetings
Stream meetings live or record and share later as an archive
Viewers can access meetings on PC, tablet and smartphone
Display agenda points, slides, documents, speaker profiles, live chat and interactive voting alongside the video
Automated subtitling and transcription for improved accessibility
Share on social media or embed the meetings on your website
Monitor viewer numbers and viewing times with in-depth analytics
