Introduction

My sound is a concept that provides a preferred-user segment (business-class segment) with control over customized sound atmosphere, flavor, clarity, and quality.

Speech and sound quality are an essential part of wireless communications. Unadvertised step-ups and upgrades in network voice-quality capabilities go, for the most part, unnoticed by subscribers, particularly when these capabilities address insufficiencies rather than impairments. For example, echo is a clear impairment while inadequate speech level in the presence of listener noise would be viewed as insufficiency. Intrusive background noise and poor signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), more often than not, would be considered as an insufficiency, while punctured radio coverage and even echo would seize top awareness on the impairment list.

Voice-quality insufficiencies can cross the threshold of a subscriber's awareness (or lack of it) if control over their intensity is given to users throughout or prior to a communication session. The exercise of control may attract users' attention and have them notice and appreciate the enhancement, while simultaneously provide a specific subscriber segment with the pleasure of being in command of their sound output.

One way of letting a subscription-based class of preferred subscribers assume control over certain parameters affecting speech levels and noise-reduction aggressiveness may be implemented via a DTMF sequence, which these users may apply throughout a phone conversation. When striking a DTMF sequence during a call, an authorized user may assume control over the VQS channel he or she is seizing.