[advocacy] Proposed Open Source Speech Codec

[Kristoff Bonne]

Greetings,

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Bacchus Thirteen wrote:
> > Maybe you should ask the GnoPhone people about
> > supporting an
> > Ogg-based codec - http://www.gnophone.com
> Yes, there seem to be certain demands for compression
> fomrats in long distance calls.  Ogg can make the
> cheapest of all since it does not require royalties.
> So, how about trying phone companies?
What I wonder is, does vorbis actually HAVE a good codec for this?

AFAIK, ogg is a codec made for music; and 'low bitrate' is one of the
features that seams to be 'in the pipeline'; but can you just apply the
ogg codec to low-speed "voice"?
I guess the needs for a 'voice' codec (especially when used in a
almost 'real time' applications like VoIP) are very different then one for
'music'.

Or, is there a need for a completely new codec?
Is this what David Rowe proposed? A new non-patented codec; that would be
added to the vorbis 'group', but completely different from ogg.

Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.

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