Apparatus with Adaptive Acoustic Echo Control for Speakerphone Mode

An apparatus comprising:

• an echo canceller, operatively coupled to a configurable group of microphones and to at least one speaker;
• an echo control configuration manager, operatively coupled to a configurable group of microphones, the echo control configuration manager operative to control the configurable group of microphones to turn individual microphones on or off and to adjust gain levels for each microphone;
• an echo canceller controller, operatively coupled to the echo control configuration manager and to the echo canceller, the echo canceller controller operative to:
• obtain acoustic echo data from the echo canceller for a plurality of microphone and speaker combinations, in response to the apparatus being placed in speakerphone mode;
• calculate an acoustic isolation value for each microphone and speaker combination;
• and
• select a microphone and speaker combination for speakerphone mode based on the acoustic isolation value.