{"id":112283,"date":"2015-10-19T18:56:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T18:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/?p=112283"},"modified":"2016-12-06T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T20:45:03","slug":"how-to-prevent-audio-fatigue-revolabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/how-to-prevent-audio-fatigue-revolabs\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prevent Audio Fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-112593\" alt=\"revolabs audio fatigue\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/10\/revolabs-audio-fatigue.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/10\/revolabs-audio-fatigue.png 600w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/10\/revolabs-audio-fatigue-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/10\/revolabs-audio-fatigue-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note:<em>This is a guest post by Ashley Nguyen, Channel Marketing Specialist, Revolabs<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"post-thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.svconline.com\/news\/industry\/open-mic-audio-fatigue-real\/402950\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-112513\" alt=\"svc logo\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/10\/svc-logo1-150x59.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"59\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/10\/svc-logo1-150x59.png 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/10\/svc-logo1-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/10\/svc-logo1.png 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> Recently Tim Root, Chief Technology Officer of Revolabs, wrote an article that appeared in the October\u00a0issue of <a title=\"Sound &amp; Video Contractor - Audio Fatigue is Real by Tim Root of Revolabs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.svconline.com\/news\/industry\/open-mic-audio-fatigue-real\/402950\" target=\"_blank\">Sound &amp; Video Contractor titled \u201cAudio Fatigue is Real.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His report on why the brain works harder\u00a0to make out sounds during poor audio communications, such as through a speakerphone with low\u00a0frequencies, is spot on.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve experienced audio fatigue, and I\u2019m sure many of you have as well when you\u00a0can\u2019t understand the person at the other end of the line due to more than one person talking at once or\u00a0background noise from a terrible audio device.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #ee901a;\">Look for products that have ultra-wideband technology for the most intelligible speech, automatic gain control, and noise suppression to help reduce background noise, and full-duplex telephony with echo cancellation.<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>From Speakerphones to Softphones &#8211; How to Choose?<\/h2>\n<p>Communication devices come in all different shapes and sizes: speakerphones, conference phones,\u00a0mobile phones, smartphones, softphones, POTS, VoIP phones, etc.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many to choose from,\u00a0but which help to prevent audio fatigue?<\/p>\n<p>Tim cited in his article, the brain can easily recognize high frequency signals \u0336 such as when I\u2019m yelling\u00a0\u0336versus low frequency \u0336 as when I\u2019m mumbling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook for products that have ultra-wideband technology for\u00a0the most intelligible speech, automatic gain control, and noise suppression to help reduce background\u00a0noise, and full-duplex telephony with echo cancellation,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_106493\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"post-thumbnail\" href=\"\/revolabs-flx-uc-1500-ip-usb-conference-phone-with-extension-microphones\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'image1');\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106493\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106493\" alt=\"Revolabs FLX UC 1500 IP &amp; USB Conference Phone (with Extension Microphones)\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/08\/Revolabs-FLX-UC1500.png\" width=\"1000\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/08\/Revolabs-FLX-UC1500.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/08\/Revolabs-FLX-UC1500-150x82.png 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/08\/Revolabs-FLX-UC1500-300x165.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-106493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Revolabs FLX UC 1500 IP &amp; USB Conference Phone with Extension Mics<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Revolabs Helps Overcome Audio Fatigue<\/h2>\n<p>Make sure you have great audio products.<\/p>\n<p>Revolabs offers unsurpassed solutions to help overcome\u00a0audio fatigue. The FLX\u2122 UC line has full-duplex technology and acoustic echo cancellation, as well as\u00a0other attributes that Tim mentioned above.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the <a title=\"Revolabs FLX UC 1000 IP Conference Phone with USB Support\" href=\"\/revolabs-flx-uc-1000-ip-conference-phone-with-usb-support\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'FLX UC 1000');\">FLX\u2122 UC 1000<\/a> and <a title=\"Revolabs FLX UC 1500 IP &amp; USB Conference Phone with Extension Microphones\" href=\"\/revolabs-flx-uc-1500-ip-usb-conference-phone-with-extension-microphones\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', '1500');\">1500<\/a> offer ultra-wide\u00a0bandwidth, up to 16kHz, which is favorable for intelligible speech.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t suffer from audio fatigue again!<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #333333\">Author Bio<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-106123\" alt=\"Ashley Nguyen Revolabs\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/10\/ashley-revolabs-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ashley Nguyen<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Channel Marketing Specialist<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Revolabs<br \/>\n<\/strong>Ashley Nguyen drives a variety of marketing initiatives enabling channel partners to communicate the value of Revolabs products. \u00a0Connect with Ashley on <a title=\"Ashley Nguyen Revolabs LinkedIn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/ashley-nguyen\/100\/47b\/1aa\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a> and <a title=\"Ashley Nguyen Revolabs Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/revo_ash\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"post-thumbnail\" href=\"\/manufacturer\/revolabs\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'image-last');\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106003\" alt=\"Revolabs FLX UC 1500\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/08\/Revolabs-728x90-Banner.png\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/08\/Revolabs-728x90-Banner.png 728w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/08\/Revolabs-728x90-Banner-150x18.png 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2015\/08\/Revolabs-728x90-Banner-300x37.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note:This is a guest post by Ashley Nguyen, Channel Marketing Specialist, Revolabs Recently Tim Root, Chief Technology Officer of Revolabs, wrote an article that appeared in the October\u00a0issue of Sound &amp; Video Contractor titled \u201cAudio Fatigue is Real.\u201d His report on why the brain works harder\u00a0to make out sounds during poor audio communications, such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112283"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221383,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112283\/revisions\/221383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}