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sidetone

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sidetone
In a telephone handset, sending a small amount of your voice signal back into your ear through the handset so that you hear yourself talk. It makes the conversation more comfortable when you hear a little bit of your own speech, because you know the line isn't dead. See hybrid.
sidetone [′sīd‚tōn]
(communications)
The sound of the speaker's own voice as heard in his telephone receiver; the effect is undesirable and is usually suppressed by special circuits.


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Sidetone (echo of voice heard in the speaker of the receiver), disturbing constant background noise that is due to the cordless system, and inability to obtain a full frequency response that is available in a wired phone are few of the reasons for a not-so-good audio quality.
The speech network provides two to four wire conversion and adjustable sidetone replacing a bulky hybrid coil transformer.
All advanced features of the ATH3101 are included in the BGA package option including: dynamic gain control for microphone and line inputs, 10-band graphic equalizers, bi-directional noise reduction, programmable gain input amplifiers and output drivers with fully differential signaling, dual 16-bit Sigma-Delta CODECs sampling, and sidetone cancellation.
 
 
 
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