Posted: 6/29/2011 4:38:52 PM EDT
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Who else gets it? Sounds exactly like this, but with more "breathing": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADE3AmWvPfo Happens randomly when I call someone or receive a call from someone. Mostly happens at night. I usually can't help but laugh at it. It pauses for several seconds when I speak in to the phone or laugh and changes tone, almost as if to reply back. Sounds like a pissed off parakeet beeing shoved in to a pot of boiling water. Skynet, maybe? |
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You're hearing an echo thats being compressed twice. Sounds like GSM voice compression. So your cell phone is sending the breathing, compressed, to the cell tower. Its getting decompressed, echoed back, compressed, and sent back to your hand set. Since the breathing is mostly white noise the compression codecs have difficultly approximating the sound so alot of it is lost or turned into weird sounds. I've had phones echo like that before but I'm not sure what causes it. Usually disconnecting and redialing fixes it. -Foxxz |
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I thought it was a bit odd. Best I can figure is some sort of prank...not sure how it manages to work when I initiate a call, though. Swamp gas? Swamp gas is a pussy...or he'd come speak all that cocaine-laced jibberish to me, himself. ETA: Thanks for informing me of the compression/echo thing. It's a cell number...I guess that I'll call AT&T and see what they'll do for me. It does seem to work when I hang up and dial again. It's funny how something like this can almost take on a personality. Maybe the aliens were trying to phone sex Louis Farrakhan and drunk dialed me by accident.  |
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Quoted: Who else gets it? Sounds exactly like this, but with more "breathing": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADE3AmWvPfo Happens randomly when I call someone or receive a call from someone. Mostly happens at night. I usually can't help but laugh at it. It pauses for several seconds when I speak in to the phone or laugh and changes tone, almost as if to reply back. Sounds like a pissed off parakeet beeing shoved in to a pot of boiling water. Skynet, maybe? Fucking damnit. Guys we are getting feedback interference from phone tap #1986-Alpha. The target is getting suspicious, roll the black Century Industries Association van out to the utility pole and fix this shit... |
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Quoted: You're hearing an echo thats being compressed twice. Sounds like GSM voice compression. So your cell phone is sending the breathing, compressed, to the cell tower. Its getting decompressed, echoed back, compressed, and sent back to your hand set. Since the breathing is mostly white noise the compression codecs have difficultly approximating the sound so alot of it is lost or turned into weird sounds. I've had phones echo like that before but I'm not sure what causes it. Usually disconnecting and redialing fixes it. -Foxxz Good explanation. Thanks... |
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Quoted: Quoted: You're hearing an echo thats being compressed twice. Sounds like GSM voice compression. So your cell phone is sending the breathing, compressed, to the cell tower. Its getting decompressed, echoed back, compressed, and sent back to your hand set. Since the breathing is mostly white noise the compression codecs have difficultly approximating the sound so alot of it is lost or turned into weird sounds. I've had phones echo like that before but I'm not sure what causes it. Usually disconnecting and redialing fixes it. -Foxxz Good explanation. Thanks... Good thing he believed your explanation, cuz all we had here at the CIA was "weather balloon" |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: You're hearing an echo thats being compressed twice. Sounds like GSM voice compression. So your cell phone is sending the breathing, compressed, to the cell tower. Its getting decompressed, echoed back, compressed, and sent back to your hand set. Since the breathing is mostly white noise the compression codecs have difficultly approximating the sound so alot of it is lost or turned into weird sounds. I've had phones echo like that before but I'm not sure what causes it. Usually disconnecting and redialing fixes it. -Foxxz Good explanation. Thanks... Good thing he believed your explanation, cuz all we had here at the CIA was "weather balloon"  |