[advocacy] Proposed Open Source Speech Codec

[Kristoff Bonne]

Greetings,

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, David Rowe wrote:
> First of all - apologies if this is the wrong mailing list to post to,
> however this was the closest thing I could find on the net to what I
> want to do, which is, develop an open source alternative to the G729 (8
> kbit/s) and/or /G723.1 (6 kbit/s) speech codecs.

> These codecs are commonly used for Voice Over IP (VOIP), and are
> restricted for use via patents that cover parts of the algorithms.
> Basicly, you need US$15k+ for the licenses before you even start to
> think about using them.  Or you need to buy a DSP chip (ie hardware
> solution) with these algorithms embedded (and licensed already).  Or you
> need a Microsoft OS (which comes with G723.1).
Are you sure about this.

ohphone (the voip-client from the openh323 project,
http://www.openh323.org/) has an option "Set G.723.1 as preferred codec".

Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.

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