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potato-peelertoday at 6:30 PM4 repliesview on HN

Isn’t delayed auditory feedback similar to echo?


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ericwoodtoday at 8:11 PM

If speaking strictly in terms of audio effects this is a delay, with "echo" usually implying feedback so the delayed signal is attenuated and fed back into the delay line, getting quieter each iteration and fading naturally.

neonmagentatoday at 7:30 PM

Yea it can basically short circuit your thinking when trying to talk, BUT oddly enough it helps with stuttering with a short enough interval. There's in-ear attachments people can use that do this exact thing and it helps reduce the amount of stuttering and the brain getting stuck on a sound. My brother uses one, its crazy how it works

mkippertoday at 7:11 PM

Yeah, this immediately made me think of DAF.

My wife is a speech pathologist and hooked me up to a DAF machine for some research, and the effect was totally shocking to me as a layperson. I think I did worse than average, but I was basically unable to speak with delayed sidetone.

ndarraytoday at 6:45 PM

It's like a single bounce. Echo effects usually have multiple bounces, each quieter than the one before it.