Millennials Age" editorial coined the phrase "Generation Y" to describe those who were aged 11 or younger as well as the teenagers of the upcoming ten years who were defined as different from Generation X. According to journalist Bruce Horovitz, in 2012, "Ad Age" "threw in the towel by conceding that millennials is a better name than Gen Y", and by 2014, a past director of data strategy at "Ad Age" said to NPR "the Generation Y label was a placeholder until we found out more about them". Millennials are sometimes called "Echo Boomers", due to their being the offspring of
Echo suppression and cancellation well as acoustic echo. "AEC" in particular is commonly used to refer to echo cancelers in general, regardless of whether they were intended for acoustic echo, line echo, or both. Although echo suppressors and echo cancellers have similar goals—preventing a speaking individual from hearing an echo of their own voice—the methods they use are different: ITU standards G.168 and P.340 describe requirements and tests for echo cancellers in digital and PSTN applications, respectively. In telephony, echo is the reflected copy of one's voice heard some time later. If the delay is fairly significant (more than a few hundred milliseconds), it