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Would it be something people would like to be able to add filters to a line? Consider normalization as a filter. Monitor could then be moved to a filter as well. Echo cancel could be a filter. Set it up so multiple filters could be added and chained together. This could help those with echo chain a couple of filters together and see if that helps.
-- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is an excellent idea, and is extendable outside of the narrow scope of audio quality improvement. I was playing with this concept a while back, and trying to find programmers for a few ideas I have. I'll air them here, so I can take some credit for being the first clever monkey to publicly talk about integration into Asterisk (or any other VoIP system, as far as I know):
- voice disguise/modulation. Think about how many customers you'd get with a module that sounds like they're Mickey Mouse. You think: 'That's really stupid!' but then look at how many people pay for Usher ringtones. Look at how many crazy truckers buy CB microphones with reverb.
- voice stress analysis. If you're dumping the audio through a filter, there's no reason you can't simply extract data from it instead of alter the audio path. A one-way background audio carrier tone to the listener might change pitch during stress events.
- customized background noise. This is apparently already the rage in Asia somewhere with some cell phone carriers - insertion of background sounds customized to the user's tastes (forest, construction site, bar, office environment, airport, etc.) which can be used for either pleasant diversion or for disguise of location.
I have a few more, even, but as is typical, these will remain on the drawing board until someone coughs up some dough to make them happen. No time, no time, no time...
JT
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