DURING NORMAL conversation, a speaker hears himself externally through the air and internally through his head; these two paths produce what is known as sidetone When a speaker uses the telephone, a third sidetone path results from electrical connection between the transmitter and receiver of the telephone handset. The sidetone paths which occur during these two modes of conversation are shown in Fig. 1.
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