WebRTC Weekly Issue #393 - August 18, 2021

Here is the latest on WebRTC  from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.

Reading

Messenger Updates End-to-End Encrypted Chats with New Features (Messenger)
What caught my eye is “more than 150 million video calls a day”.

Avaya and Microsoft Announce Integration of Microsoft Azure Communication Services with Avaya OneCloud™ CPaaS (Press release)
Not sure what this exactly means on a technical level.

Technical

SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec (Google AI)
The real purpose and focus of Lyra has just been revealed.

SoftBank Solves Key Mobile Edge Computing Challenges Using NVIDIA Maxine (NVIDIA Developer)
This seems expensive.

Embed and transcribe a Daily WebRTC video call in any Notion page (Daily)
This one shows creativity: Chrome Extension+Daily+Deepgram+Notion.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

Building Microsoft-powered native video meetings on LinkedIn (LinkedIn Engineering)
It is about time they added that capability. Makes sense they did it with Microsoft.

Roblox acquires Discord competitor Guilded (TechCrunch)
Kudos to the team at Guilded.

Releases

Explore Vonage Video API Capabilities with Vonage Video API Playground (Vonage)
This one is a nice capability.

Introducing Element Voice Messages, all new VoIP, and so much more (Element)
Element doubles down on native support for VoIP.

From our own posts

None this week.