Hi, recently I have been forced to use skype and discovered that they have a quite well working echo suppressor. (my vis-a-vis used no headset, only normal speakers and the microphone from the Logitech QuickCam pro 9000)
I think the algorithm skype uses is quite simple: whenever sound is coming from the other party and being output they just mute the mike. Sometimes there are audible artifacts but it much better than nothing. While I did not know about the pc speakers I was thinking she/he used a head set until being told thats a simple speaker. This means that its not easy to interrupt the vis-a-vis while she/he is speaking w/o pauses, skype seems to use a rather short time constant for muting the mike. Perhaps there could be some audio threshold above which the microphone could be enabled unconditionally so some loud speak will make it to the other party. I did not try with both parties using speakers so far, perhaps this is asking for trouble... Comments welcome. Greetings, Konrad _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
