[Speex-dev] Speex development

[Clifton Craig]

For what it's worth, I've been working on my Speex on iPhone series on  
my blog. I'm currently half thru part two and I've uploaded a checkout  
of Speex-1.2rc1 that includes an XCode iPhone project that compiles.  
If someone want to grab what I have and consider adding it to the  
official project feel free to do so. See the 1st URL in my signature  
to find my blog.

Clifton Craig
clifton.craig at gmail.com
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http://codeforfun.wordpress.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/cliftoncraig

On Nov 12, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Jean-Marc Valin wrote:

> Essentially, the thing that's been holding up 1.2 was the AEC and  
> preprocessor. The codec itself is pretty stable and I do not really  
> see more work happening on it. As for the AEC and preprocessor,  
> these are really open-ended project and I lack sufficient time to  
> take care of them.
>
>     Jean-Marc
>
> On 10-11-12 03:27 AM, Ken Smith wrote:
>>
>> Basically, Speex is the brain child of Jean-Marc Valin, and from  
>> what I can tell, he has since moved on to other projects, though he  
>> continues to monitor this list.  So no, it's not really being  
>> developed anymore.  And what's out there really is good enough for  
>> a great many applications.
>>
>> That said, there remains room for improvement, mostly in the pre- 
>> processor (the codec itself is very mature).  To take a few known  
>> issues:
>>
>> (1) The main codec doesn't have full fixed point support for all of  
>> its modes.
>> (2) The acoustic echo cancellation, in my experience, gives you  
>> real but far from perfect echo cancellation.  (And a lot of  
>> theoretical work has been done in that area since Valin coded it up  
>> in 2005.)
>> (3) The VAD for the pre-processor needs to be rewritten.  (The  
>> comments in the code describe it as a "kludge".)
>> (4) I've found that the AGC in the preprocessor can act rather  
>> strangely at times.
>> (5) The AGC in the pre-processor doesn't have fixed-point support.
>> (6) There are Java (JSpeex) and C# (CSpeex) ports, but they only  
>> implement the codec, not the pre-processor, jitter buffer, AEC, or  
>> any of the other parts of the Speex library.  It would be great if  
>> someone were to port the remainder of the Speex library over to  
>> those environments.
>>
>> I'm not really qualified to take on these jobs myself, but it would  
>> be great if someone else with the right background who wanted to  
>> make a name for themselves in this field was able to pick up where  
>> Valin left off.  (To be clear: we're all very much in his debt.)
>>
>> Ken Smith
>> Cell: 425-443-2359
>> Email: ken at alanta.com
>> Blog: http://blog.wouldbetheologian.com/
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:02 PM, James Mbuthia  
>> <jmmbuthia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just wanted to know, is speex still being developed? I was going  
>> through the manual and its dated December 2007 for speex version  
>> 1.2 beta 3. As far as I can see there doesnt seem to be any new  
>> versions since then, is there any development work on speex?
>>
>> regards,
>> James
>>
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