[vorbis] Are there low bitrate "Voice" plans

[Téo de Hesselle]

> As I understand it, the codec is for music predominantly,
> and not voice, right?
>
> There is a mention that the bit rate could be turned down to
> (think it said) 8kbps, but how would that sound?

Normal telephone is 9600kbps.

Since mp3/vorbis can give us about 10:1 compression, If properly tuned I
dont see why it wouldn't sound as good as a telephone call... in other words
good enough.

However, the problem compression would introduce is lag, which will only
decrease as computers get faster and encoders are better optimised, *but* at
the moment I think the lag would be unnaceptable, especially over the net
which introduces it's own lag as well (ever pinged another dial up user
across the globe ?)

However I am not a developer or communication expert, these are just my own
observations.


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Teo de Hesselle
NV Networking

teo at nvnetworking.com
0416 215 289

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