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Post by silverdragon on Oct 8, 2014 8:50:05 GMT
Why do people shout into a phone when the person at the other end is loosing reception?.....
Its a common misconception that shouting into a phone helps the other person hear you through a dodgy connection.
"Over Modulation" can cause as much interference on a line as stray static can......
"Speak up I can barely hear you"....
Some person (nameless) says I personally am too quiet on the phone.
No one else has complained?... but anyway, it MY fault.
Busted....
I went to their house, and discovered they had a Volume control on their phone, which for some reason had been set to quieter than normal.....
So it isnt my fault then?... do I get an apology?... do I heck, I do get a right earful about who the (beep) set it that low in the first place..... (As If I had been there since they bought a new phone?..)
No comment.
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Post by the light works on Oct 8, 2014 14:12:43 GMT
Why do people shout into a phone when the person at the other end is loosing reception?..... Its a common misconception that shouting into a phone helps the other person hear you through a dodgy connection. "Over Modulation" can cause as much interference on a line as stray static can...... "Speak up I can barely hear you".... Some person (nameless) says I personally am too quiet on the phone. No one else has complained?... but anyway, it MY fault. Busted.... I went to their house, and discovered they had a Volume control on their phone, which for some reason had been set to quieter than normal..... So it isnt my fault then?... do I get an apology?... do I heck, I do get a right earful about who the (beep) set it that low in the first place..... (As If I had been there since they bought a new phone?..) No comment. there is a thing called signal-to-noise ratio. in the old days of analog phones, there could be a lot of noise on the signal caused by the phone amplifying the signal as much as it possibly could. speaking louder - but not overdriving the equipment - could help overcome that on a bad connection. on the other side of the coin, I have had multiple times I have been able to make myself better heard by using my hand as an acoustic aid to get more voice into the microphone on the phone. yelling, however, just makes your voice more incomprehensible in general. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Oct 8, 2014 14:56:59 GMT
One thing wrong with cell phones is that they are missing a feature called "side tone". Researchers at Bell Labs found out very early on that if you supplied the right amount of the users voice back into the earpiece, the user would talk at the right volume. They called this "side tone." If there wasn't enough side tone, people tended to shout into the phone, if there was too much, people tended to whisper. That's way many people talk very loudly when on cell phones. Most cell phones don't have side tone.
As TLW pointed out, on earlier analog cell phones, sometimes talking louder could overcome a weak connection. That's probably why they didn't put side tone phone on early cell phones. They wanted people to speak louder. With digital phones, there's no excuse not to have it.
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Post by the light works on Oct 8, 2014 15:01:10 GMT
One thing wrong with cell phones is that they are missing a feature called "side tone". Researchers at Bell Labs found out very early on that if you supplied the right amount of the users voice back into the earpiece, the user would talk at the right volume. They called this "side tone." If there wasn't enough side tone, people tended to shout into the phone, if there was too much, people tended to whisper. That's way many people talk very loudly when on cell phones. Most cell phones don't have side tone. As TLW pointed out, on earlier analog cell phones, sometimes talking louder could overcome a weak connection. That's probably why they didn't put side tone phone on early cell phones. They wanted people to speak louder. With digital phones, there's no excuse not to have it. SD might think of it like stage monitors for musicians. you can, to a degree, control the musician's volume by increasing or decreasing their monitor return. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Oct 8, 2014 15:22:24 GMT
One thing wrong with cell phones is that they are missing a feature called "side tone". Researchers at Bell Labs found out very early on that if you supplied the right amount of the users voice back into the earpiece, the user would talk at the right volume. They called this "side tone." If there wasn't enough side tone, people tended to shout into the phone, if there was too much, people tended to whisper. That's way many people talk very loudly when on cell phones. Most cell phones don't have side tone. As TLW pointed out, on earlier analog cell phones, sometimes talking louder could overcome a weak connection. That's probably why they didn't put side tone phone on early cell phones. They wanted people to speak louder. With digital phones, there's no excuse not to have it. SD might think of it like stage monitors for musicians. you can, to a degree, control the musician's volume by increasing or decreasing their monitor return. Exactly |
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Post by the light works on Oct 8, 2014 16:11:58 GMT
SD might think of it like stage monitors for musicians. you can, to a degree, control the musician's volume by increasing or decreasing their monitor return. Exactly when I saw the title, my first thought was that it was related to yelling at your computer...  |
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Post by GTCGreg on Oct 8, 2014 16:17:27 GMT
when I saw the title, my first thought was that it was related to yelling at your computer... After trying that on numerous occasions, I've come to the conclusion that computers are deaf. |
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Post by the light works on Oct 8, 2014 16:19:15 GMT
when I saw the title, my first thought was that it was related to yelling at your computer... After trying that on numerous occasions, I've come to the conclusion that computers are deaf. maybe you're just not yelling loudly enough  |
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Post by GTCGreg on Oct 8, 2014 16:24:17 GMT
On a related note, or maybe not so related, on April 1, someone put a sign on the copier in the office where my daughter works that said that a new voice recognition system had been installed on the copier and instead of entering the number of copies you wanted on the keypad, all you had to do was tell the copier. Her office is next to the copier and she said she was in hysterics all day listening to people shouting numbers at the copier.
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Post by the light works on Oct 8, 2014 16:34:46 GMT
On a related note, or maybe not so related, on April 1, someone put a sign on the copier in the office where my daughter works that said that a new voice recognition system had been installed on the copier and instead of entering the number of copies you wanted on the keypad, all you had to do was tell the copier. Her office is next to the copier and she said she was in hysterics all day listening to people shouting numbers at the copier. I have heard of that prank. maybe we should have a thread for practical jokes. in fact, I think I will make one. |
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