Method for adjusting mobile communication activity based on voicing quality

摘要

A mobile communication device ( 100 ) includes a vocoder ( 104 ) for vocoding speech ( 500 ) received at the mobile communication device. The parameters output by the vocoder are used to generate a voicing quality metric ( 208 ). The voicing quality metric is used to provide feedback to the user of the mobile communication device by various feedback modalities including visual ( 114 ), audible ( 108 ), and tactile modalities ( 118 ) to indicate when the user should speak louder to overcome ambient noise. The voicing quality metric is also used by other communications equipment ( 304, 312 ) to decide if communication activity is needed.