A data logger can measure and record the time taken for sound to reach two microphones. Unlike the clap-echo method, these can be quite close together. For example, two microphones are 3.4 m apart.
CMG refers to "The growing ability to access microphone data on smartphones and tablets" allowing an unnamed technology partner to "aggregate and analyze voice data during pre-purchase ...
Last December, MindSift, a New Hampshire-based company, bragged that it used voice data to place targeted ads by listening to people’s everyday conversations through microphones on their devices ...