System and method for removing tdma audio noise

A mobile phone, comprising:

• an audio communications transceiver to receive an uplink or downlink audio signal during a call;
• a voice activity detector for detecting non-speech segments and speech segments in the audio signal;
• and
• a TDMA noise removal filter for processing the voice signal during the detected selected silence segments and not during the non-silence segments of the voice signal.

An article of manufacture comprising:

• a machine readable computer storage medium having stored instructions that program a computer system to:
• accessing an uplink or downlink audio signal in a mobile phone during a call;
• detecting a plurality of silence intervals and a plurality of non-silence intervals in the audio signal;
• and
• processing the audio signal by a time division multiple access (TDMA) noise removal filter during the detected silence intervals and not during the non-silence intervals.