The Technique of Silence Suppression

The Technique of Silence Suppression

Silence Suppression

Silence Suppression is also termed as Voice Activity Detection (VAD). Silence Suppression is a significant aspect of voice communication over the internet. It disables transmission of voice packets when it detects silence. Majority of the conversations involve 50% silence. In this way, it saves bandwidth on IP trunks. The savings are typically from 40% to 50%. In order to prevent the receiving user of the session from detecting that the session call has halted all of a sudden, comfort noise is produced at that end. Complete stillness indicates that the connection has ...