Speakerphone
When you are listening in your hotel room on a
conference call to a room with multiple people in it, you
invariable can’t hear what some of the people are
saying. It is embarrassing to have to continually say,
“could you say that again.” You can hear the
person nearest the microphone, but a faint voice at the end
of the conference table sounds like scrambled eggs.
And if an air conditioner or fan is running or there is
background ambient street noise — you really have
problems hearing what is being said.
Existing attempts to solve these problems use
multiple microphones and/or various types of AGCs
(automatic gain controls). Multiple microphones need to be
positioned correctly and add complexity and cost, and
don’t fully solve the problem. AGCs don’t
respond as quickly as you would like to one person speaking
loudly, followed by another speaking softly or being far
from the microphone.
And neither multiple microphones or AGCs enable
differentiating between speech and background noise.
Syfx can solve or minimize all of these problems.
Syfx’s patented technology enables differentiating
between speech and noise, enhancing speech but not the
noise. It responds quickly and accurately to people
speaking at different volume levels and distances.
Receiving
(Speaker)
Now consider a more complex situation of conferencing
between multiple locations using equipment from different
vendors. In addition to each location having varying
amounts of environmental noise, a certain amount of
transmission channel noise may have also been introduced.
Syfx minimizes both the transmission channel and
environmental noise from each location, and adjusts the
audio from each location to be at a consistent volume.
