Audio-Technica’s latest microphone looks like a router, and it hangs from the ceiling

Audio-Technica has launched its new microphone called the ATND1061 Beamforming Ceiling Array microphone, which as the name suggests can hang from the ceiling. The newly-launched microphone can be used as a single unit or in multiples to capture clear natural audio of multiple speakers while reducing environmental sounds. The microphone may is roughly the size of a wireless router and designed for usage in conference rooms, board rooms and other meeting rooms.

The ATND1061 supports six separate output channels that can collectively be configured with up to 32 user-defined microphone pickup zones. The microphone’s 90-degree orthogonal beams can focus on a particular space point and prevent the pick up of unwanted noise on all output channels.