A communication device comprising: microphone means to detect sounds and to generate sound signals corresponding to the sounds, wherein the sounds comprise utterances of a user and other sounds; and monitoring means to monitor sound signals, and, in response to detecting that the quality of the sound signals is degraded, to generate user feedback signals corresponding to a directional user position change relative to the microphone means to alter the sound quality; characterized in that: the microphone means comprises a microphone array; the monitoring means comprises an audio processor coupled to the microphone array to perform sound conditioning on the sound signals to separate the utterances of the user from the other sounds to generate conditioned sound signals and to monitor sound conditioning quality of the conditioned sound signals; and in that the communication device further comprises a network interface coupled to the audio processor to transmit the conditioned sound signals to a remote communication device through a corresponding communication network, wherein to generate the user feedback signals the audio processor receives a remote feedback signal from the remote communication device comprising an indication of a measure of the separation of the utterances from the other sounds. microphone means to detect sounds and to generate sound signals corresponding to the sounds, wherein the sounds comprise utterances of a user and other sounds; and monitoring means to monitor sound signals, and, in response to detecting that the quality of the sound signals is degraded, to generate user feedback signals corresponding to a directional user position change relative to the microphone means to alter the sound quality; characterized in that: the microphone means comprises a microphone array; the monitoring means comprises an audio processor coupled to the microphone array to perform sound conditioning on the sound signals to separate the utterances of the user from the other sounds to generate conditioned sound signals and to monitor sound conditioning quality of the conditioned sound signals; and in that the communication device further comprises a network interface coupled to the audio processor to transmit the conditioned sound signals to a remote communication device through a corresponding communication network, wherein to generate the user feedback signals the audio processor receives a remote feedback signal from the remote communication device comprising an indication of a measure of the separation of the utterances from the other sounds. the microphone means comprises a microphone array; the monitoring means comprises an audio processor coupled to the microphone array to perform sound conditioning on the sound signals to separate the utterances of the user from the other sounds to generate conditioned sound signals and to monitor sound conditioning quality of the conditioned sound signals; and in that the communication device further comprises a network interface coupled to the audio processor to transmit the conditioned sound signals to a remote communication device through a corresponding communication network, wherein to generate the user feedback signals the audio processor receives a remote feedback signal from the remote communication device comprising an indication of a measure of the separation of the utterances from the other sounds.