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Yes. They are largely oblivious. I'm hard of hearing. The echo and distortion from most phones on hands-free, makes many people/environments completely incom
by retrac 4y ago
Yes. They are largely oblivious. I'm hard of hearing. The echo and distortion from most phones on hands-free, makes many people/environments completely incomprehensible to me. "I'm sorry I can't understand you. Are you on speakerphone?" Yes. They're on speakerphone. That they sound like they're shouting from the bottom of a well is a surprise to most when I tell them.
- JohnFen 4y agoI'm not hard of hearing, yet I have the same issues.
- nicolaslem 4y agoAbout speakerphone, one pet peeve of mine is echo reduction algorithms. They basically turn the conversation into half-duplex. It means that in practice only one person can speak at a time which breaks many aspects of a natural conversation like interrupting each other or acoustically nodding to signify understanding. I get it, hearing yourself in echo is atrocious, but so is half-duplex so please do your interlocutor a favor and turn off speaker.