Is enhanced voice privacy why I can basically wisper into my phone in a noisy environment and have the other person hear me loud and clear with almost non-existant background noise? <B> </B>
no - it's an encryption feature that "scrambles" (for lack of a better word), your phone conversation "more" (once again, for lack of a better work), providing more security from people trying to tap into you calls and decode them. (which I always thought was next to impossible on a spread spectrum transmission....) Your provider has to support the enhanced privacy feature - I have no idea whether Verizon does or not. Sorry for the lack of technical definition, my knowledge of this featrure is fuzzy at best - hopefully someone can give us a bit more technical info.....
Ok then explain to me how my girlfriend here's my voice and almost no background noise in a noisy bus with me talking under my breath. And then when I get home andf there is no background noise except me typing she can here it exactly?
I can't really.... but I'm 100% sure its not a result of the Voice Privacy feature. The AGC feature is supposed to help in this arena - deal with negating background noise and whatnot - but I have no idea how it accomplishes this. Here's a guess - when your on the bus. the mic in the phone is picking up so much noise, that the phone adjusts to pick up the signals with the most gain - which should be your voice since its right next to the mic. - So it filters out the rest of the background noise and just transmists you voice. At home - since their is no background noise, so to speak, your voice is not in competiton with any other sounds, so the phone doesn't need to filter out as much, and lets the soft sound of you typing slip through? I've always been amazed at how those wireless headsets with the mic in the cord 6 in. from your ear could work so well - very similar to the situation you're experiencing. Sorry!
It is most likely due to the 'voice clarity' feature being turned on. LG phones typically have this feature.
Some here will disagree and some will say it is the vocoder. I believe otherwise, Its a CDMA thing. Almost every CDMA phone I have used does not broadcast lots of background noise whereas everyone I know with GSM broadcasts a lot of background noise. I could tell some stories. By the way I really liked my VX10's; 2 down (broke) 1 still working.
