State House & Parliaments
Conference systems for State Houses and Parliaments
Every representative heard. Every decision on the record.
From shaping policies that define a nation’s future to ensuring every representative’s voice is heard, the work of parliament depends on reliable communication and seamless collaboration.
A chamber in session is one of the hardest rooms in the world to hear in. Two hundred people, a dozen side conversations, a ceiling built for grandeur rather than speech, and a representative at the far bench trying to make a point on the record. Everything the assembly produces afterwards — the vote, the transcript, the interpretation, the livestream — is only as good as what the microphone picked up. Televic builds for that room: a microphone at every seat, voting and interpretation on the same network, and systems shaped to fit chambers that cannot be altered. With Televic’s parliamentary conferencing systems assemblies can turn debate into transparent, inclusive, and effective decision-making.
Key challenges & Pain Points
The chamber raises its own voice
Side conversations lift the noise floor, so representatives speak louder to be heard over them, which lifts it again. Every assembly in session runs this loop, and it ends with a debate that is exhausting to follow and hard to record cleanly. A microphone and loudspeaker at every seat capture speech at the source, so a representative is heard without having to compete with the room.
The building is protected; the technology still has to fit
Many assemblies sit in historic buildings never designed for speech intelligibility, working at desks under preservation order with plate cutouts that cannot be enlarged. Televic machines custom faceplates to match the existing cutout exactly and integrates delegate units into heritage furniture, so the chamber is equipped without being altered.
A committee room and a 150-seat chamber are the same estate
Assemblies run committee rooms of twelve and chambers of well over a hundred positions, and specifying a different system for each means a second training curve, a second spare part and a second support call. One Plixus network carries all of them, from a plug-and-play committee room to a full multimedia chamber — at the European Parliament it runs rooms of up to 912 delegates.
The session does not pause while you diagnose
Proceedings move quickly, and the agenda does not wait for a fault to be traced. CoCon gives the operator microphone control, speaker lists, speech timers and agenda control during the session, plus diagnostic tools to locate a problem in the system rather than searching for it in the room.
Every language, every vote, one source of audio
Assemblies debate in more than one language, decide by recorded vote and publish their proceedings, and all three depend on the same clean, seat-level audio. Interpreter consoles, electronic voting with authentication, and isolated per-seat feeds for recording, streaming and camera tracking all run on one platform rather than four.
Why Televic is especially suited to parliaments
Parliaments are not standardized. A national legislature, a regional or state assembly and a committee room differ in scale, in procedure and in the building, they occupy — and most of them work to rules that predate the technology by a century. Sessions run to a strict agenda, speaking order is contested, votes are recorded, and the proceedings are public. Televic is especially suited to this because the systems are engineered for formal, structured debate at scale, and because almost nothing about them is fixed: units, faceplates and desks are specified to fit the chamber, rather than the chamber being adapted to fit them.
Underneath that variation sits one network. Plixus carries audio, voting, interpretation, video and control for every position in the assembly, which means one platform, one operator interface, and one support path across committee rooms and the main chamber alike. CoCon runs the session on top of it — speaker lists, request-to-speak, speech timers, agenda and voting — and gives the operator the diagnostics to find a fault without halting proceedings. Interpreter consoles, per-seat feeds for the record and the livestream, and automatic camera tracking that follows the active microphone all draw from the same clean, seat-level audio.
| What a chamber has to do | What Televic provides |
| Be heard over a chamber in session | A microphone and loudspeaker at every seat, capturing speech at the source instead of across the floor |
| Fit a building that cannot be altered | Custom faceplates machined to existing plate cutouts, custom-fit delegate units and fully integrated multimedia desks, built into heritage-protected furniture |
| Scale from a committee room to a full chamber | One Plixus network across the whole estate — chambers of 50 to 150 positions run as a single system, and the European Parliament runs rooms of up to 912 delegates |
| Run the session to procedure | CoCon speaker lists, request-to-speak, speech timers, agenda control and operator override — with diagnostics to trace a fault mid-session |
| Decide, record and publish | Electronic voting with ID authentication, isolated per-seat feeds for recording and streaming, and T-CAM camera tracking that follows the active microphone |
| Debate in more than one language | Interpreter consoles and language distribution to every seat — ISO 20109 compliant booths, and up to 58 languages at the European Parliament |
Conferencing solutions / products
Every product is selected for speech intelligibility in difficult chambers, procedural control during a live session, and the ability to be shaped to the room rather than the room to it.
D-Cerno
The straightforward choice for committee rooms. Wired and plug-and-play, with a microphone at every seat and high-quality audio transmission at a lower price point.
Confidea GO & FLEX G4
The customisable choice for the chamber. Wired for permanent installations of 50 to 150 positions, wireless for rooms that get reconfigured or systems that travel to rooms without AV support, with voting and authentication built into the unit.
uniCOS
The complete choice for multimedia chambers. Audio, video, document viewing and advanced voting at every position, with a screen at each seat that solves the line-of-sight problem a single room display leaves behind.
Lingua
The language layer. Interpreter consoles and language distribution to every seat, for assemblies that debate in more than one language — from a two-language regional council to the European Parliament, where Televic runs 1,283 interpreter desks across Brussels and Strasbourg.
Comparison table
D-CernoDiscussion system |
Confidea GO & FLEX G4Conferencing system |
uniCOSVideo Conferencing system |
LinguaInterpretation |
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| Best for |
Committee rooms, smaller assemblies, tight budgets |
Main chambers, structured debate, reconfigurable and travelling systems |
Heavy agendas, document-driven sessions, line-of-sight issues |
Multilingual debate and language distribution |
| Deployment |
Wired, plug-and-play |
Wired, wireless or combined |
Built in or portable |
Fixed or portable booths |
| Microphone at every seat |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Interpreter positions and receivers |
| Voting & authentication |
— |
✓ Voting with ID authentication |
✓ Advanced workflows, ID authentication |
— |
| Video & documents at the seat |
— |
— |
✓ Full HD video and document viewing |
— |
| Interpretation |
— |
✓ Language channels to the seat |
✓ Language channels to the seat |
✓ Interpreter consoles and distribution |
| Heritage integration |
✓ Custom faceplates |
✓ Custom faceplates and built-in units |
✓ Fully integrated multimedia desks |
✓ Custom booth and console fit |
| Runs on Plixus |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Debate in every language
Multilingual debate is not an add-on for an assembly that needs it. It's the condition for the debate happening at all. Televic has built the language layer for parliaments at every scale: interpreter consoles and booths for the interpreters, a channel to every seat for the members, and language selection on the delegate unit itself.
At the European Parliament, that means 1,283 interpreter desks across Brussels and Strasbourg, rooms configured with anywhere from 12 to 108 desks each, capacity for up to 58 languages, and active room coupling that lets sittings in different buildings run as one virtual chamber. At the Regional Council of Île-de-France, it means three ISO 20109 compliant interpreter booths serving a 250-seat hemicycle. The same platform covers both.
Interpretation runs on the Plixus network alongside the discussion audio and the vote, so the interpreter hears the same clean, seat-level feed the record does — and language distribution reaches the chamber, the gallery and remote participants from one system.
Built to fit your chamber
Every parliament has its own traditions, its own architecture and its own way of working, and a great many of them sit in buildings that cannot be altered. Televic goes beyond off-the-shelf: systems are tailored to the assembly, whether that is a national legislature, a regional or state assembly, or a local chamber.
Heritage-protected furniture is the common case, and it is a solvable one. Faceplates are machined to match existing plate cutouts exactly, delegate units are custom-fit to the desk, and multimedia positions are integrated into the woodwork rather than mounted on top of it. The result preserves the historical grandeur of the chamber while the technology in it is current — and in modern legislative halls, the same flexibility lets the system disappear into the architecture instead of competing with it.
Customization is not limited to the visible surface. At the Turkish Parliament, 655 uniCOS multimedia units were daisy-chained across eleven loops with fingerprint authentication for 600 members and RFID badge readers as a fallback — a system specified around how that parliament actually votes.
With Televic you do not get conferencing equipment; you get a system built around the way your parliament works.
What gets tailored
- Microphone faceplates machined to existing plate cutouts in protected furniture
- Custom-fit delegate and multimedia units built into heritage desks
- Interpreter consoles and ISO 20109 compliant booths sized to the chamber
- Fully integrated multimedia desks for modern legislative halls
- Authentication specified to procedure — RFID badge, contactless card or fingerprint
- Voting workflows, speech timers and agenda structures configured to standing orders
Streamlined & successful parliamentary sessions
AMPLIFY EVERY REPRESENTATIVE’S VOICE
Democratic debate only works when every member can be heard and understood, from the front bench to the back row. How? Each delegate unit carries its own microphone and built-in loudspeaker, so speech is captured where it is spoken and reinforced across the chamber — no shouting over the room, no losing the argument to the acoustics.
KEEP CONTROL OF THE FLOOR
Give the floor to the right member at the right time. Manage speaker lists and request-to-speak queues, set speech timers, follow the agenda, and open or close a vote from one operator screen. Results are collected and displayed immediately, so the chair keeps the session moving and the procedure stays visible to everyone in the room.
OPEN THE CHAMBER TO THE PUBLIC
Citizens expect to see their assembly at work. Every intervention is tracked automatically, and isolated per-seat audio feeds the recording, the transcript and the livestream — with automatic camera tracking following the active microphone, so the public sees the member who is actually speaking.
BRING THE ASSEMBLY TOGETHER, WHEREVER IT SITS
Members join from constituencies, committees travel, and experts contribute from elsewhere. Connect the chamber to remote participants without losing intelligibility, run the debate in as many languages as it needs, and give the same experience to a member in the room and a member on the call.
Parliaments that rely on Televic
