摘要 |
<p>A switch (26) in a telecommunications network (34) monitors a call placed by a calling party (12) to a called party (14) to detect the presence of prescribed condition, such as the entry by the caller of a self-muting signal, or an excessive level of background noise. Upon detecting the occurrence of the prescribed condition, the switch mutes the outgoing speech of the calling party while passing to the calling party the speech of the called party. <IMAGE></p> |