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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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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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Echo Cancellation with Flash – A Case Study

  • On December 12, 2016
Background From time to time we are getting requests to improve audio quality in flash calls and mainly to help remove echo. In a previous post, Echo Cancellation with Flash Clients, we discussed few techniques that could be helpful. In this post we show a case study for integrating a centralized audio filtering to improve […]
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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 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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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 Cancellation, Art or Science? Part I

  • On November 18, 2016
Background First, let us apologize that this post is going to be a bit technical. Don’t worry we will try to keep it as simple as possible.  Echo cancellation, and more specifically Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) is theoretically a very simple algorithm. The AEC algorithm receives a reference signal (i.e. the audio played to the […]
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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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