Do any apps adjust phone conversation audio?

[selection7]

Do any apps adjust phone conversation audio?

The idea of being able to apply an equalizer to phone conversatio audio is exciting to me (especially if you could apply presets depending on the phone number you're connected to)...if a particular phone connection sounds harsh or dull, you could adjust it. But without fail, every app I've found deals with equalizing media player audio. And I don't even use my phone for music since I still like my mp3 player. So is affecting phone call audio possible?

Secondarily, being able to apply a compressor effect could be useful for that friend who really likes to go back and forth between practically yelling and talking normally.

 

[Rovers]

being able to apply a compressor effect could be useful for that friend who really likes to go back and forth between practically yelling and talking normally.

I'd tell that friend twice to ease up, and simmer down, and I would hang up on him if he continues. Haven't got time for that nonsense.
Much quicker, and more effective than a 'compressor app'.

 

[james515]

you can not alter the voice quality through the cell network. you could only alter what you hear and that would cause a delay while the app tries to clean it up.
the problem with this idea is that if you have bad audio quality coming at you, you cant really fix it with out some other degradation or volume decrease.

besides if it could work all the carriers would have done so years ago

 

[selection7]

you can not alter the voice quality through the cell network. you could only alter what you hear and that would cause a delay while the app tries to clean it up.
the problem with this idea is that if you have bad audio quality coming at you, you cant really fix it with out some other degradation or volume decrease.

besides if it could work all the carriers would have done so years ago

Although I appreciate responses. All that is nonsense...both of you.

I respectfully reiterate my query

I know that one reason many phones can't record the callers input is because the mic for your voice and the signal path to the earpiece are physically separate. So specifically, I'm wondering if the reason there are not apps that affect phone conversation audio is because the signal path to the earpiece is physically separated from the audio that the phone's operating system installed apps can process.

 

[james515]

sorry but its not nonsense, its fact, what you want to do wont work for live conversation. the only way it would work, would be to record your voice as you talk, then send that speech as an audio file to the other person so they can listen to it on their end, then they would reply back and their phone would send an audio file to your phone so you could listen to it.

most audio problems are with the phone, while a few are with the network, its mostly the phones problem. back in the mid to late 90's I worked with Motorola to help them determine why our customers had such poor audio quality with their new line of "digital" phones. We spent 3 days making various calls in any situation a customer could do. We tested the Motorola phones against Ericsson phones and Nokia phones, the Motorola techs were surprised i could tell them exactly which phone they were using. so I had one of them come sit with me to make and receive the calls to each of the phones. During these testing calls they were out driving around with one of our RF Engineers and using their testing equipment so they could read the signal strength from the tower so they knew that each phone was receiving the same thing. The Motorola phones were the worst of the 3, and Nokia was #1 with Ericsson at #2.

About 6 months later the Motorola techs came back out, and the changes they made dramatically improved the voice quality.

so yes, I do know something about this subject.

 

[selection7]

OK, that's interesting (not being sarcastic). But I have to assume you aren't getting my question. My dual-core Motorola Photon is plenty capable of applying an equalizer (and probably even a compressor) effect to audio real time. In 2011, if it's audio in the form of electricity, audio effects can be applied by a computer-like device. That's what a modern smart-phone is. And apps exist for this already!...with respect to music. To a PC's processor, there is no difference between music audio and a phone call recording audio.

So the first guy's reply was essentially "you don't want to do that". yes, I do. And the second I read as "the phone's not capable of processing audio". yes, it is, unquestionably. Can I make it have frequencies in the 10kHz-16kHz range if it didn't to begin with? Of course not (actually there are decent ways to fake it). That doesn't mean you can't boost or cut the frequencies you do have.

I just want someone who knows (or has some applicable info) the answer to the question I asked to pretty please reply. Thanks anyway, James.

 

[james515]

i understand what you are looking for, but its still not going to work. if the audio you hear when someone else is talking is bad to begin with, then there is not much you can do to correct it with an app/equalizer on your end. all that it could do would be to normalize the audio, but its still gonna sound like garbage.

 

[selection7]

i understand what you are looking for, but its still not going to work. if the audio you hear when someone else is talking is bad to begin with, then there is not much you can do to correct it with an app/equalizer on your end. all that it could do would be to normalize the audio, but its still gonna sound like garbage.

I acknowledge your point of view, but just like the other fellow, you're just telling me "you don't want to do that". yes, I do.

What I said was true. What you just said falls somewhere between not true and beside the point.
Every phone model is different. Different mics, different speakers. It gets expensive to make every mic or speaker have a naturally perfectly distributed frequency response; as a result, they don't. Plus the space limitations can result in less than ideal speakers. (Here's an example: I have a pair of mic'd headsets that have a dull sounding mic, and a pair that have a harshly bright sounding mic. Hypothetically, if I was talking to someone who was using the headset with the dull sounding mic, I could apply an equalizer setting to their voice that I hear, then apply a different setting when I call a second guy who's using the bright mic'd headset. These are headsets, but the concept is the same. Every phone model will have a slightly different tonal quality to its mic, just as headsets with a mic do.) In fact, tonal qualities will change just based on the distance from the reciever your mouth is (professional singers apply this concept--my background is audio...to go along with yours in phones ). PLUS, everyone's ears are different, especially if you have some level of hearing loss, boosting frequencies you're deficient in can have obvious rewards. On top of that, there's a little thing called personal preference. I could go on...and I didn't originally want to derail this thread and type all this out, but you are insistent.

That's ok though, this post will act like a *bump* too. Seeing the level of knowledge on these forums, surely someone knows?