Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 17:39 +0100, Konrad Karl a écrit : > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:02:16PM +0100, Damien Sandras wrote: > > Le samedi 10 janvier 2009 ?? 13:05 +0100, Judith Meili a ??crit : > > > I have no echo problems with skype but with Ekiga there is a big echo > > > and the receivers of my calls complain. Is there no way to get rid of > > > this echo? > > > > > > > Use Skype or buy a headset. > > There may be better solutions... > > Below is a copy of a post I sent to this list about half a year ago > (unfortunately I received zero comments :-( ) > > The skype "echo suppression" seems to work surprisingly well in > practice. My brother-in-law is making frequently calls using > skype and told me that both parties just use no headset, just > the webcam mike and normal speakers and there is almost no > echo noticeable. > > still interested in comments, have very little time for research > now unfortunately but this may improve. > > Greetings, > Konrad > > <email> Hi, > <email> > <email> recently I have been forced to use skype and discovered that they > <email> have a quite well working echo suppressor. (my vis-a-vis used no > <email> headset, only normal speakers and the microphone from the Logitech > <email> QuickCam pro 9000) > <email> > <email> I think the algorithm skype uses is quite simple: whenever sound > <email> is coming from the other party and being output they just mute the > <email> mike. Sometimes there are audible artifacts but it much better than > <email> nothing. While I did not know about the pc speakers I was thinking > <email> she/he used a head set until being told thats a simple speaker. > <email> > <email> This means that its not easy to interrupt the vis-a-vis > <email> while she/he is speaking w/o pauses, skype seems to use a rather > <email> short time constant for muting the mike. > <email> > <email> Perhaps there could be some audio threshold above which the > <email> microphone could be enabled unconditionally so some loud > <email> speak will make it to the other party. > <email> > <email> I did not try with both parties using speakers so far, perhaps this > <email> is asking for trouble... > <email> > <email> Comments welcome. >
Wouldn't you get the same result if you enable silence suppression in Ekiga ? -- _ Damien Sandras (o- //\ Ekiga Softphone : http://www.ekiga.org/ v_/_ Be IP : http://www.beip.be/ FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org/ SIP Phone : sip:[email protected] _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
