[Asterisk-Users] voicepulse "silence" during conversations

[Allen Niven]

the issue is lack of sidetone
u can google sidetone

sidetone is feedback u get from the mike to your earpiece that
the fone generates to let u know the circuit did not go dead
when people stop talking

i find the lace of sidetone extremely annoying and so will many customers

with asterisk
i have found lack of sidetone on the grandstream budgetone
i have found perfect sidetone on the cisco 79xx and also on the sipuras


Race Vanderdecken wrote:
> Yes, Ironic isn't it. That SIP/VOIP is so digitally clear that you don't
> hear the pops, cracks and whistles of the old analog phones. The only
> analog is from the human to the machine. The old analog phone humans
> hear it, soon there will another generation of humans who have never
> used an analog phone. 
> 
> Anyone remember the transition from long distance operators to direct
> dial. Or from pulse to touch tone? Back in 1992 I tried to make a
> calling card call using a rotary phone in Alabama, where they had 5
> digit dialing. I was stumped looking at a phone with no pound/# sign on
> it.
> 
> I first noticed this silence quirk when I was working with a 3COM SIP
> phone back in 2000. The crystal clear voice and silence made me feel
> like the phone was not working or that the other person had hung-up.
> 
> You also have to be careful of background noise in the room; phones with
> good microphones will let the other end here everything going in the
> room you are in.
> 
> Race "The Tyrant" Vanderdecken
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Sean
> Kennedy
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 4:06 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] voicepulse "silence" during conversations
> 
> Hi all, I'm running Asterisk 1.0.0.  I am a customer ( and supporter ) 
> of voicepulse.  For me, it works perfectly, but one of my customers 
> noticed a small problem:  During a conversation, when the otherside 
> isn't talking, it's almost like the mic turns off. 
> 
> Not that big of a deal I know, and the more I think about it, the more 
> this seems a voicepulse issue.   But in the off chance this could be 
> something on my end:
> 
> Asterisk 1.0.0
> Connecting to voicepulse via iax, ulaw codec
> Polycom 500 IP SIP phone, ulaw codec
> 
> I'll be honest, I don't notice it at all, but my customer does, and I'd 
> like to make them as happy as I can with this system. 
> 
> Also ( I would feel silly making another thread out of this ) what are 
> the common reasons for echo between sip phones going through two 
> different asterisk servers?  As in phone -> asterisk A -> asterisk B -> 
> phone.  I've been searching for it, but I'm not having much luck.
> 
> Thank you, any help is greatly apprecaited!
> 
> Sean
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