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To: Tex-Con-Man
some newer cell phones are wideband not voiceband and if so noise outside voice frequencies could be filtered out...it would be interesting to know what type phone they both had as well if they had gps...and if the pd call center (non 911 could track the gps)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband_audio

60 posted on 04/05/2012 12:30:49 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: rolling_stone
But the band pass filter is like using a chainsaw to do trim carpentry.

Let's assume the phone had a full range 20-20K. Using my previous example of a truck door slamming at the same time he says the word “cold”.

The vocal range for a male can go as low as below 100HZ and has some content above 4KHZ.

The truck door slam is likely to have content below 60KHZ and some content above 1KHZ.

The question is, using a band pass filter, is it possible to eliminate the truck door slam without effecting the voice content? The answer is no. Reducing the frequency range content of a vowel or consonant has the potential to completely change it.

A consistent “noise floor” can be reduced by adding in a reverse phase of the same content. For example...sampling the noise, when Zimmerman isn't speaking, and flipping phase of the noise and overlaying it onto the "f'n cold" phrase might clean it up some, but unless it's a perfect mirror match, it won't be conclusive.

This all assumes a single audio file.

65 posted on 04/05/2012 1:28:44 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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