Acoustic signal enhancement system

1. A product comprising:

a machine readable medium; and

a program encoded on the medium which causes a processor in an acoustic signal monitoring system to:

receive an acoustic signal from a microphone;

analyze time series data obtained from the acoustic signal to determine whether the microphone is ‘on’ or whether the microphone is ‘off’;

transform the acoustic signal into a frequency domain signal;

determine undesirable microphone placement by:

determining whether the microphone is too close to a user by detecting an air puff based on the frequency domain signal;

determining a signal-to-noise ratio of the frequency domain signal; and

determining whether the microphone is too far from the user based on the signal-to-noise ratio; and

reporting to a user, through a user display, whether the microphone is too close or too far, and whether the microphone is ‘on’ or ‘off’.

2. The product of claim 1 , where reporting includes suggesting an action for the user to take to correct for the undesirable microphone placement.

3. The product of claim 2 , where the action is at least one of: ‘talk louder’, ‘move the microphone closer’, ‘move somewhere less noisy’, or ‘put on a headset microphone’.

4. The product of claim 1 , where the program further causes the processor to:

determine a RMS value of the acoustic signal; and

compare the RMS value to a threshold to determine whether the microphone is ‘on’ or ‘off’.

5. The product of claim 1 , where the program further causes the processor to:

detect clipping of the acoustic signal; and

report the clipping to the user through the user display.

6. The product of claim 1 , where the processor continuously determines whether the microphone is ‘on’ or ‘off’.

7. The product of claim 1 , where the processor continuously determines undesirable microphone placement.

8. The product of claim 1 , where the processor continuously determines undesirable microphone placement and whether the microphone is ‘on’ or ‘off’.