SALT LAKE CITY, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ClearOne (Nasdaq: CLRO), the leading provider of high performance audio conferencing solutions, announced today that Vidyo, the first company to deliver personal telepresence solutions, has selected ClearOne's CHAT 50 and CHAT 150 personal and group speakerphones as the preferred audio component for their video communications offerings.

ClearOne has been delivering high-performance audio conferencing solutions for more than 20 years and has a broad range of products, for personal conferencing on PCs and cell phones, office desktop conferencing, and large professional conferencing in venues such as boardrooms, training centers, courtrooms, and auditoriums. Vidyo is the first company to license technology and deliver products built upon an entirely new video conferencing architecture that utilizes the recently approved H.264/SVC video compression standard. It delivers unparalleled video quality over unreliable networks including the Internet.

"We evaluated the ClearOne CHAT products some time ago and found them to deliver exceptional audio quality," said Adi Regev , Vice President, Products at Vidyo. "We are very happy to partner with ClearOne, a recognized leader in the audio conferencing industry. The CHAT products are the perfect complement to our video communications systems."

The CHAT 50 is a portable speakerphone providing hands-free, full-duplex audio communications for laptops, cell phones, and VoIP applications. The CHAT 150 is a group speakerphone that is designed for the executive office, small conference room, or home office and connects to telephones, PCs, and video conferencing systems. Both devices are full-duplex and offer HDConference^™ audio technologies such as Distributed Echo Cancellation^® and Noise Cancellation. Additionally, the CHAT 150 offers First Microphone Priority and Automatic Level Control for superior wide-band audio communications.

The CHAT 50 was given PC Magazine's "Editor's Choice Award" and the CHAT 150 recently received the "2007 Product of the Year Award" from Communications Solutions magazine.

In late January, Vidyo launched the VidyoConferencing^™ product family; the world's first scalable coding-enabled video conferencing system. It includes the VidyoRouter^™, VidyoRoom^™, VidyoDesktop^™, VidyoPortal^™ and the VidyoGateway^™; a complete solution spanning from the highest-end room system available to HD-enabled desktop conferencing. Vidyo^™ recently received the "Best of Interop" award, winning "Best Startup" Interop 2008, a special award selected by a panel of InformationWeek expert judges.

"We are particularly happy to be working so closely with a company like Vidyo," said Mark Child , Director of Product Marketing - Telephony, at ClearOne. "The web-based collaboration market is experiencing tremendous growth due in large part to the fact that today's businesses are looking to reduce expenses associated with business travel but increase the speed and quality of communication. Vidyo is advancing this market with a totally unique product offering and we are glad to be selected as their audio solution."

About ClearOne

ClearOne Communications Inc. is a communications solutions company that develops and sells audio conferencing systems and related products for audio, video and web conferencing applications. The reliability, flexibility and performance of ClearOne's comprehensive solutions create a natural communications environment that saves organizations time and money by enabling more effective and efficient communication. For additional information, access http://www.clearone.com.

About Vidyo, Inc.

Vidyo, Inc., headquartered in Hackensack, NJ, is making personal telepresence a reality. Comprised of some of the industry's best engineers, Vidyo has developed the first new video conferencing architecture in decades. Vidyo enables people to communicate effectively by using HD quality video from wherever they happen to be. VidyoConferencing is easy and affordable to use by anyone whenever they want, and deploys simply over any IP network. Leveraging Vidyo's unique intellectual property built upon the new H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) standard, Vidyo delivers the industry's best resilience and lowest latency video conferencing over converged IP networks. Vidyo's technology for OEMs and end-to-end product solutions for organizations are able to support point-to-point and multi-point connections that include a variety of different platforms ranging from Mac & Windows desktops to dedicated room solutions. Learn more at http://www.vidyo.com.

ClearOne Contact:

Mark Child

801-303-3446

mark.child@clearone.com

CONTACT: Fred Iannotti

Iannotti Communications, LLC

802-318-5531

fiannotti@earthlink.net

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SOURCE ClearOne