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From: rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison)
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Subject: Re: Telecom Peeves
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Date: 30 Jul 90 07:14:10 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 530, Message 1 of 11


In article <9974@accuvax.nwu.edu> sys0001%dircon@ukc.ac.uk writes:
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 502, Message 10 of 15

>One thing that drives me up the wall is when the person on the other
>end of the phone holds the handset so the microphone part is under
>their chin instead of in front of their mouth.

>I've seen many people doing this (when I've been in their office and
>they've taken a call). Don't they realise that they should speak
>directly into the mouthpiece for the best transmission?

No, in fact, the best (cleanest) transmission is achieved by placing
the mouthpiece directly in front of your CHIN, slightly *below* your
mouth.  The reason is that by doing so you eliminate the very annoying
excessive pickup of certain sounds like "s" and "p".  The effect is
even more pronounced with your average garden-variety microphone used,
for example, in a high school auditorium.


Linc Madison   =   rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu