Automatic gain control in a loudspeaker telephone set

摘要

A loud-speaker telephone set includes a switching control circuit to attenuate the incoming signal, during transmission, and to attenuate the outgoing signal, during reception, in order to prevent feedback from the loud-speaker to the microphone. An automatic gain control circuit is added which detects at least one of the incoming signal level and the outgoing signal level and which adjusts the attenuation of both the incoming and outgoing signals so as to reduce the attenuation change between reception and transmission below 20 dB and eliminate the unpleasant sensation, to a user, of large attenuation changes.