What is Echo Cancellation?

Echo cancellation technology monitors the incoming and outgoing streams of a phone conversation. If it determines that the outgoing stream is the same as the incoming (an echo), the noise cancellation engine subtracts that part of the outgoing stream.

If you've ever been on a call where you hear your own voice echoing back, you know how much echoes degrade the quality of the call. Echoes are usually caused when the person you're talking to has a phone with a strong speaker and a sensitive microphone that picks up your voice from the speaker and broadcasts it right back to you. This can happen when the other person has you on speaker phone. Echo cancellation eliminates these annoying echoes.

Echo cancellation is often used in call centers with interactive voice response (IVR) systems that use voice recognition. If a caller is on speaker phone when they are interacting with the IVR, it could cause the IVR to hear and then try to process an echo of its own instructions. Echo cancellation engines prevent this from happening, and thus save some callers from having a bad customer experience.

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