Patent ID: 8351589

Claim:
A computer readable storage device having computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer-readable program code to be executed by one or more processors to perform acts comprising: establishing a virtual position of each participant to an audio conference relative to one or more other participants of the audio conference by displaying information for each participant in a graphic user interface on a display of a telecommunications device connected to the audio conference; receiving, at the telecommunications device, a voice communication containing voice data originating from a particular participant of the audio conference, the voice data including an audio watermark encoded at a frequency between 0 and 300 Hz; decoding the voice data received by extracting the audio watermark; determining spatial audio information and monaural voice data from the audio watermark; and applying the spatial audio information to the monaural voice data to produce spatialized audio comprising a left audio channel signal and a right audio channel signal, wherein the spatialized audio is spatialized to appear to come from a direction corresponding to the virtual position of the particular participant that is a source of the corresponding voice data, as established on the graphic user interface of telecommunications device.