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Abstract

A system (10) provides a user of a communication device with the ability to control an audio quality of the audible sound generated by the communication device, and includes several telephones (30-32) coupled to a communication network (20) of the type through which computers (35-36) can communicate. The telephones exchange electrical communications that represent audible sounds. Each telephone has the ability to either increase or decrease an audio quality of the audible sound generated by that telephone in response to manual activation of a respective one of two buttons (76-77). Upon activation of one such button (76), the telephone can facilitate an increase in the audio quality by signaling another telephone to decrease the size of electrical communications being sent through the communication network, and/or by buffering the audio information in successive electrical communications before beginning to convert the audio information into audible sound.

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