[vorbis] Why 64kbps is important

[John Morton]

On Tuesday 07 August 2001 17:22, you wrote:
>  Did you know:
>
>  Everyone needs to remember the purpose to 64kbps audio -- VoIP.
>
>  The current standard for G.711 is 64kbps, and once Docsys 1.1 become
> reality this time next year, the VoIP industry will start looking for the
> next generation audio codec for the cable softphone industry.
>
>  This is why MP3Pro and WMA are fighting it out for the 64kbps industry. 
> Did anyone on this newsgroup know that?

What are the requirements? Mono I assume, and a narrower than music frequency 
range? 

Given that vorbis does a fairly good job of mono 64kbps now, and vorbis 1.0 
will be tuned for it, vorbis might as well try for a 32kbps voice tuned 
encoding rate. 

John

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