[Asterisk-Users] Re: Audio filters (was: feature - VM gain adjust?)

[Andreas Anderson]

Hiya,

>This is an excellent idea, and is extendable outside of the narrow scope of 
>audio quality
>improvement.  I was playing with this concept a while back, and trying to 
>find programmers for a
>few ideas I have. I'll air them here, so I can take some credit for being 
>the first clever monkey to
>publicly talk about integration into Asterisk (or any other VoIP system, as 
>far as I know):

>- voice disguise/modulation.  Think about how many customers you'd get with 
>a module that
>sounds like they're Mickey Mouse.  You think: 'That's really stupid!' but 
>then look at how many

"Please press 7 for Darth Vader"  -- "I am your father, Luke" :-D

>- voice stress analysis.  If you're dumping the audio through a filter, 
>there's no reason you can't
>simply extract data from it instead of alter the audio path.  A one-way 
>background audio carrier
>tone to the listener might change pitch during stress events.

Is there allready some application to do a voice stress analysis? I guess 
developing something
like this from scratch would be very hard...

>- customized background noise.  This is apparently already the rage in Asia 
>somewhere with some >cell phone carriers - insertion of background sounds 
>customized to the user's tastes (forest, >construction site, bar, office 
>environment, airport, etc.) which can be used for either pleasant 
> >diversion or for disguise of location.

yeah, this would rock. "Honey, i've to stop talkin', the Dentist want's to 
start drilling". For some
Cellphones, this allready exists: http://www.simeda.com/soundercover.html

This could also be used to do (MusicDuringCall. Get a call from the army and 
you play
"Status Quo" (http://www.france-jeunes.net/paroles/index.php?tid=MTkwOTQ=) 
:-)

>I have a few more, even, but as is typical, these will remain on the 
>drawing board until someone >coughs up some dough to make them happen. No 
>time, no time, no time...

Hey, no normal person uses asterisk at home anyway, so there HAS to be some 
geek out there who
also wants this AND can code :-D


Bye

Andreas

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