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AI, Can you identify echo?

  • On July 5, 2023
Acoustic Echo in phone calls is caused when audio that is being played on the loudspeakers is then picked up by the microphone and afterwards transmitted to the far-end person who is talking. As a result the far-end talking person will hear himself/herself in a delay. When echo appears in a phone call it is […]
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Echo Cancellation, Art or Science? Part V

  • On December 4, 2021
Background [EDITED] The following blog post provides an overview on all major components that are required when building/designing an echo cancellation software. In this post we will discuss a common implementation issue we have seen many times – audio stream synchronization.
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Flash Conference with Acoustic Echo Cancellation

  • On August 12, 2018
Background Following our previous post on acoustic echo cancellation on flash calls, we got requests to improve audio quality also on conference calls that are based on flash technology. The case study that was described in the previous post dealt with audio quality for regular flash calls, and showed how to convert them to SIP […]
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How to evaluate an echo cancellation algorithm?

  • On March 25, 2018
  When you encounter an echo problem in your application, network or devices it is obvious you need to introduce an echo canceller.  Your next step is to explore at least two possible locations for performing the echo cancellation: cancelling the echo on the client side or doing it on the server side. The decision […]
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Echo Cancellation with negative echo tail

  • On May 7, 2017
Background Echo path/tail is one of the most fundamental parameters when performing echo cancellation. In previous posts, we elaborated on the importance of echo tail and we also provided a Do It Yourself (DIY) method to calculate the echo tail. In most usage scenarios, the value of the echo tail will be a positive one […]
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Echo cancellation and public address systems

  • On January 13, 2017
Background When you hear the words echo or echo cancellation, you probably imagine a scenario in which two people are talking over the phone and one of them hears his/her echo. Indeed this is the most common scenario in which echo appears and echo cancellation mechanisms are being used.  In this post we would like […]
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Acoustic Echo Cancellation and Sound Cards

  • On November 20, 2016
Clock Synchronization Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) is a method of removing the echo from the audio signal captured by the microphone. This is done by using the audio that is played to the speakers as a reference audio signal. Most AEC algorithms require that both audio signals, i.e. the signal captured from the microphone and […]
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Echo Cancellation with Flash Clients

  • On November 20, 2016
Background In the beginning of this year, Adobe has released an acoustic echo cancellation as an integral part of its platform. Based on the feedback we are getting, the problem of echo was successfully reduced but not in all environments and especially not in environments that include mobile platforms.  SoliCall’s network echo cancellation technology could […]
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Echo Cancellation, Art or Science? Part IV

  • On November 19, 2016
Background In the previous posts of this series we discussed the challenges of echo cancellation algorithms to efficiently handle the echo path,  the complexity introduced by  echo invalidation and the howling effect. In this post we will discuss another important aspect with regards to echo cancellation called Saturation.
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Echo Cancellation on Android – synchronizing the input

  • On November 19, 2016
Background In this post we will discuss the challenge of synchronizing the audio that is given as the input to the echo cancellation software running on Android. This post is a continuation to a blog series we published on echo cancellation and specifically on the post that deals with importance of synchronization in echo cancellation. […]
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