A quick test method to ensure the sound quality of mobile phones A quick test method to ensure the sound quality of mobile phones Although the main application of mobile phones is data communication, there is no doubt that voice is still the most attractive killer application of mobile phones. Therefore, the sound quality of mobile phones is one of its most important features. Sound quality is affected by three factors: the choice of voice coder (Vocoder), the mechanical design of the mobile phone, and the choice of sound sensor (microphone and speaker). The choice of voice coder is determined when the standard is formulated and cannot be changed by any application design. The mechanical design includes sound isolation, coupling path to the ear, and noise cancellation. The choice of speaker and microphone is also an important factor, but it is also determined during the development process. The verification of design quality is a long and difficult process. The difficulty lies in the simulation of human voice and ear, and how to take human physiological function factors into consideration when conducting sound testing. Although there are ready-made equipment on the market that can perform this test, it is generally quite expensive, and the process of verifying the sound quality of mobile phones is very time-consuming. Manufacturing Considerations Once a mobile phone enters the production process, all of these factors should have been verified and, if there are any problems, resolved. But is this really the case? Will the testing process catch a defective speaker or microphone? Agilent Technologies\' Agilent8960 wireless communication test instrument has introduced an audio test function that can be used for GSM or cdma2000 testing. The idea is to excite the microphone with noise and excite the speaker with an electronic sound that can be analyzed. Instead of the expensive and difficult test methods used in general quality verification, we only need a simple fixture. The fixture needs to be adjusted first with a known good design. The response of the good design is learned and then the test results of each mobile phone are compared with it. One of the audio test signals that can be selected as the sound source is an artificial sound called P-50, which is the name given by the ITU standard to describe the process of sound generation. The statistics of the sound show a high degree of consistency with the real speech, including: amplitude changes, frequency response, and the signal over a period of time with the...
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