Re: An advocate for a little audio compression > >A lot of people have voices, which are not considered "Radio" > >or "Broadcast Quality" in both pitch and volume. Add a little > >mic shyness and you're often stuck with lower average deviation.
> n...@... wrote: > Still, no reason they can't close-talk the mic with > whatever voice they have. Many people new to radio can be more than casually skeptical about shoving a mic right up to their mouth. I've seen situations where some people who are first exposed to two-way radio are quickly chased away by the fairly bossy or negative actions of others in regards to orders about close talking into a mic. > >Trying to inform and fix users about close talking the mic > >at higher volume levels does a good job of scaring some folks > >off. > I guess this is where philosophical issues come to play. > I don't care if I lose users that are incapable of properly > modulating their radios. Some people do care and there are novel and fairly easy ways to help address the situation. > Any ol' audio detector/filter/comparitor would do. Nothing > fancy like the "SmartVox" we use for Shuttle audio (which > doesn't work on amplitude, but rather changes in audio > frequency), just something that says "I saw peaks over 4 > kHz" or "average deviation over the past 5 seconds was at > least 1.5 kHz". > Bob NO6B What action does the above circuit take? s.
