Echo Cancellation, Art or Science? Part II

  • On November 18, 2016
Background In the previous post on acoustic echo cancellation we discussed the importance and the challenge in handling of the echo path. In this post we will discuss a different aspect that echo cancellation algorithm must handle. It is not rare that users change the setting of their audio device during a call. For example […]
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Echo in VoIP and Altruism

  • On November 18, 2016
What is echo in telephony? In a nutshell, echo is the phenomena in which your voice is being played back to your speakers. Echo has been with us since the early days of telephony. In the past, when most people where using PSTN lines, echo was less disturbing due to the fact that the delay […]
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Echo cancellation is now available for PJSIP

  • On May 15, 2016
Background PJSIP is an is a free and open source multimedia communication library. One of the most important components that influence the audio quality in VoIP communication solutions is the existence of a good echo cancellation.  SoliCall’s acoustic echo cancellation software is a powerful echo cancellation technology that is also flexible to support and tune […]
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Echo in Public Address systems – additional considerations

  • On January 16, 2016
Background This post is a continuation to our previous post on  AEC and Public Address systems. This post elaborates on additional considerations that should be reviewed when implementing and tuning acoustic echo cancellation software in PA systems. After analyzing relevant case studies, out of many important considerations, we have selected the below ones.
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Echo Cancellation on Android and AudioRecord

  • On June 5, 2015
Background When developing a VoIP application, most implementations use AudioRecord as the foundation class for capturing audio from the microphone.  Can this class be used to cancel echo as well ?  
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Echo Cancellation and silence

  • On March 11, 2015
Background Following our previous post on synchronization, in this post we would like to cover a specific aspect of un-synchronized input which causes the speakers to play silence that is not monitored and therefore unknown to the AEC.
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