Reference based Noise Reduction

On July 28, 2022

Background Ambient noise during phone calls is annoying especially when the phone calls are a significant part of your business. Let’s assume you run a call center or a shared workspace and there is temporary (or constant) source of noise that is picked up by the phones of the agents and therefore this noise is […]

Noise Map for call centers

On July 24, 2022

Background Call centers suffers from significant ambient noise that is originated from multiple locations like: Other agents talking in the background. The supervisor/team-leaders shouting to instruct or enthuse the agents. A nearby gathering in the coffee corner. Such noise reduces the quality of the calls and directly impacts customer satisfaction. In addition the existence of […]

Boost Speech to Text Accuracy

On July 4, 2022

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch in science that is gaining momentum in the last years. Its holy grail is to build a machine that understand and respond to text or voice data the same way that humans do. NLP has gained momentum due to two main correlated reasons: (1) the increasing usage of […]

Sorry, what?

On June 2, 2022

In this post we would like to discuss a disturbance in phone calls that might happen from time to time: you are in a phone call but the voice of the other party is too weak making it had to understand. In this case you will initially try and increase the volume on your side […]

Cocktail party and crosstalk

On May 3, 2022

The cocktail party problem is one of the oldest problems in the arena of signal processing. The problem is describes as follows: in a cocktail party there are many people talking. All their voices are mixed in the air and the people listening will hear all the voices blended together. Nevertheless, in most cases, the […]

Aggressive noise cancellation

On April 3, 2022

In the last couple of years many vendors offer noise cancellation software that is aimed to attenuate the ambient noise in phone calls. The first question that comes into mind when testing such a software is, does my peer hear the ambient noise or not? Can he/she hear me slamming the door? What about my […]

Convert open office to quiet office

On February 3, 2022

When people are making calls while they share the same workspace the cross-talk might be a source of a disturbing noise. This is true regardless if the people that share the open office are from the same company or from different companies as commonly happen in shared workspace. In this blog we will discuss how […]

4 ways to improve online teaching

On January 4, 2022

Online teaching is on the rise for many years and COVID has given it an extra boost in the last two years. The driving force behind this phenomena is very simple: the increase in the quality, robustness and availability of internet connectivity voids the limitations previously imposed by geographic distances. The physical distance between the […]

Noise in Contact Centers and ROI

On December 5, 2021

Most of the contact centers are very noisy. The noise usually contains human voices like the speech of agents sitting in the background or the voice of the supervisor giving instructions. Apart from being a nuisance does this noise have an impact on performance and can ROI be improved by eliminating this noise? In this […]

Underwater Voice

On November 2, 2021

Underwater voice is a voice that sounds as if the speaking person is under the water or is behind some mask. The voice in this case is not clear and lively but sounds a bit muted and muffled. Why does this happen? Human sound is created when air passes the vocal cords and create sounds. […]

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