Sound conditioning

A non-transitory storage medium comprising instructions executable by a processor of a computing device comprising a microphone array, the instructions executable to:

• receive a conditioned sound signal, wherein the conditioned sound signal is a product of a noise cancellation or echo cancellation operation performed on a sound signal generated by the microphone array comprising an utterance of a user;
• evaluate a quality of the conditioned sound signal;
• determine that the quality of the conditioned sound signal has degraded;
• and
• determine a directional user position change for the user to correct the degraded conditioned sound signal.

A processor-implemented method of optimizing sound conditioning in a communication device comprising:

• generating a local sound signal corresponding to utterances of a user and other sounds detected by a microphone array coupled to the communication device;
• conditioning the local sound signal to separate the utterances of the user from the other sounds to generate a conditioned sound signal;
• evaluating the conditioned sound signal to generate a local quality score for the conditioned sound signal;
• when the local quality score of the conditioned sound signal is below a threshold associated with the communication device, generating a local feedback message indicating a local directional user position change.