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Adding Background Noise To Your Phone Call
lww writes "By way of a Gizmodo article, you can now add your own background noise to a cell phone call. A company called Simeda is offering a product called SounderCover that allows you to play selected background noises such as traffic, construction, and even the dentist during your phone call. The possibilities are endless! 'Hi honey, I'm going to be late -- I'm stuck in the middle of a circus parade...Bye! Hey Joe, another round for me and the boys...what? Oh, whoops *click*'"
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
Haha, so true! Just pick a random building and walk five feet into the lobby. Guaranteed dropped call. I do this all the time.
This would seem to be the perfect additional functionality to the proposed video cell phone technology proposed by a Hong Kong company that would enable users to set a background picture of there choice. Having the righ background noise would make much more effective. Here's the missing ??? before profit!
I've finally got around to changing my sig
...sound here will get busted. Too many horns. I'd know it was fake and I'd think most people would.
I've been waiting for this to come about ever since reading The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein. In it, a computer (as in the kind you build a room around, not the kind you carry into a room, it's an old book) renders its own videophone calls to simulate a person's office, including all the proper background noise, even taking into account the general location of where the office should be, and computing noise based on traffic reports. (And even those little white lies, such as his "secretary" picking up, "He's in a meeting right now," *flushing sound in background* "Oh, looks like he's just finishing up, would you like to hold?")
I couldn't find it with a quick Google, but this is almost just like something I read about several years ago.
It was a special "phone booth" that was targetted for bars and other places. Had special sounds like "Office chatter", "traffic", etc. I don't remember if it was a full booth (and soundproof) or not. I think it had like 4 or 6 sounds you could choose from. Of course, you had to pay for it, I think a $1 or $2 for the call. Never did get to see one in person.
I think I read about this about 10 years ago. Anyone else remember hearing (or better yet, see in person) one of these phone booths?
Just like this software it was meant to fool the people your talking to into thinking your somewhere else.
. 62,400 repetitions make one truth -- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
I'll buy the one that makes my phone sound like it's losing the connection so I can get out of boring conversations easily.
Just hit the "end" button in the middle of a sentence.
Then turn the phone off for a couple minutes, call 611 and listen to the nice voicemail system, or just hit the "shut up" button if it rings, so they go directly to voicemail if they call back
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
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I downloaded the demo version and installed it yesterday. It does exactly what it advertises, but I have a hard time believing that there's 15 euro worth of value in there. 4 euro would probably be pushing it. Postcardware is probably more approriate.
As part of 2G services and onward, in an effort to conserve maximum bandwidth, cell phones don't transmit during the time you're not talking. (Which is why you can get weird choppy-sounding conversations).
Background noise is synthesized at the receiving end based on random samples taken every few seconds at the transmitting end.
Easier to burden the receiver with the task of generating fake noise that burden the network with the transmissal of said noise.
I'm interested if this broadcasts the synthesized background full time from the transmitter...if so, it's going to kill the cell network capacity in areas where phones fitted with this are used.
Boycott everything - they're all trying to fuck you one way or another
The easiest way to do this is to just scrunch up some paper by the phone. It makes the noise perfectly.
Hoax background noises wouldn't have saved this guy ...:
"The first divorce directly related to the September 11th terrorist attacks has been filed in New York. It appears a guy with an office on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center spent the morning at his girlfriend's apartment wit his phone turned off. He wasn't watching TV either. When he turned his phone back on at about 11am, it rang immediately. It was his hysterical wife, "Are you OK? Where are you?" He said, "What do you mean? I'm in my office of course!"
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> I'll buy the one (Score:5, Funny) ...
that makes my phone sound like it's losing the connection so I can get out of boring conversations easily.
Here you go! This is the one you're looking for!
Me and a friend discovered that if I forwarded my calls to him, and he forwarded them to me, that we got the "network error" sound when anyone tried to call either of us. Pretty handy for making yourself unavailable :)
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