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SBoC: RedPhone Call Quality

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Re: SBoC: RedPhone Call Quality

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Post by jcr »

You mentioned "Microphone and codec performance" as well as device details (vendor, model, OS, etc.) but I'm wonder if you'll try leveraging multiple microphones (on handsets that have them) to help eliminate echo?

Re: SBoC: RedPhone Call Quality

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Post by calder »

jcr wrote: post #2

You mentioned "Microphone and codec performance" as well as device details (vendor, model, OS, etc.) but I'm wonder if you'll try leveraging multiple microphones (on handsets that have them) to help eliminate echo?

That might not be good for the phone. The benefits achieved by having the microphone slightly closer to your face are more than outweighed by the damage of leveraging the microphone out of position. It's probably best to leave that decision to the end user rather than try to implement it in software.

Re: SBoC: RedPhone Call Quality

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Post by bigiain »

I wonder how easily "de-anonymisable" the stored data is? Handset model/version/OS/OSversion/Carrier/network/(presumaby)ipaddress-resolution-location. Cross that data with the sort of people who might have RedPhone installed - I'd guess that'd resolve better than Zipcode/date-of-birth/gender...

Re: SBoC: RedPhone Call Quality

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Post by emblem____ »

huhtenberg wrote: post #5

Is this some sort of weird PR push for whispersystems.com? https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=calder https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=emblem____ https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=abolishme https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rhodey

I think you mean whispersystems.org

Re: SBoC: RedPhone Call Quality

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Post by emblem____ »

bigiain wrote: post #6

I wonder how easily "de-anonymisable" the stored data is? Handset model/version/OS/OSversion/Carrier/network/(presumaby)ipaddress-resolution-location. Cross that data with the sort of people who might have RedPhone installed - I'd guess that'd resolve better than Zipcode/date-of-birth/gender...

No IP/Location data. Just model/version/OS/Carrier/Network.

Re: SBoC: RedPhone Call Quality

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Post by huhtenberg »

huhtenberg wrote: post #5

Is this some sort of weird PR push for whispersystems.com? https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=calder https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=emblem____ https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=abolishme https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rhodey

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=halon too
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