Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

Ryoichi Matsuda

Kunihiro Kato

Masaaki Terai

Giichi Ito

Ryoichi Okayasu

Kazuhiko Kakehi

Only one reversible electro-acoustic converter is used to act without a press-to-talk switch or the like as a transmitter and a receiver. The electro-acoustic converter is connected to a communication line through two 2 - 4 converters in the form of hybrid transformers which are interconnected to form a transmitting system and a receiving system.

Transmitting and receiving apparatus

In the loudspeaking telephone circuit, the speech signal is used as a control signal for detecting the extent of decreasing the acoustic coupling between the loudspeaker and the microphone of the telephone set and of the coupling between the transmitting and receiving circuits of an anti-sidetone circuit from an expected worst condition for which the telephone circuit has been designed thereby automatically decreasing the value of the variable loss utilized for preventing howling by an amount corresponding to said decrease. This circuit provides satisfactory speech communication with a smaller loss inserted than a prior art voice switch thus greatly improving unnatural sound as caused by the voice switch.

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Musashino, Japan

Ryoichi Matsuda