Using your PC’s speakers

If you are going to use your PC’s speakers (rather than a headset) to play the audio, you need to be sure that you won’t generate echo effects.

Echo is caused when the sound played by your speakers is picked up by your microphone. Other participants will then hear an echo of the audio which they have just heard. In extreme cases, if someone else in the meeting is also generating echo, you could cause a feedback loop leading to unpleasant screeching sounds.

If you are running the JustMeet conference centre on Windows XP, the system includes Acoustic Echo Cancellation which may allow the PC’s speakers to be used without worrying about echo through your own microphone.

However, please check with other participants that they are not hearing echoes of their own voices.

If you wish to have several people in one physical location using a single microphone, then we recommend using an external microphone with noise echo cancelling features, similar to the Chat 50 or Chat 150 from www.clearone.com.