DEFCON 18 “HD Voice – The Overdue Revolution” presentation materials

The latest (as of noon PT, today) presentation materials for the presentation at DEFCON.

There’s one PPTX download, plus two demo clips in QuickTime that Michael Graves (@mjgraves) of “Graves on SOHO Technology” was kind enough to give me.

The PPTX file is here.

QuickTime Demo clip one

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QuickTime Demo clip two

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TMC pieces addressing HD Voice in July

In the run up for the DEFCON 18 presentation, “HD Voice – The Overdue Rervolution,”  HD Voice News Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney presented the following articles at TMCNet

Mobile HD Voice Heats up in Europe

Cable’s Four Steps to HD Voice

Verizon Business on Track for HD Voice by the End of the Year

The Fraunhofer Paradox

AudioCodes buys rest of Natural Speech Communication

AudioCodes (www.audiocodes.com) will acquire all of N.S.C. Natural Speech Communication (NSC) that it doesn’t currently own.  Based in Israel, NSC does speech analytics and speech recognition.

Over the past couple of years, AudioCodes invested $8.6 million and held almost 60 percent of NSC, and started to count NSC’s financial results into its financials in 2008.

AudioCodes [...]

Steve Wildstrom’s skeptical take on HD Voice

Thanks to Ari Rabban of phone.com for the pointer.

Business Week columnist Steve Wildstrom was among the people that met with HD Connect last week and wrote a column about it.

As evidenced by the tag line of his blog, “Skeptical musings on the world of personal technology,” Windstrom is, while liking the concept of improving voice [...]

Voxbone supplies iNums to Phone.com

Phone.com is a sponsor of HD Voice News.

Voxbone will be supplying Phone.com with its HD voice-aware iNum phone numbers.  The iNum numbers will enable Phone.com customers the ability to be called through a  single phone number for the cost of a local call from about 4,000 cities in 49 countries.

Described as the “international” code for [...]

ADTRAN is joining the G.722 HD voice crowd - really.

Without going into details,  sources, or forward-looking statements, ADTRAN is in the process of testing its G.722 wideband firmware upgrade for its handsets.  A formal introduction/release of the firmware is expected “within six months,” according to one account.

ADTRAN’s IP phones were engineered from the start to support G.722, with the company planning to issue a [...]

GIPS provides HD Voice for Android, Nimbuzz

Global IP Solutions (GIPS)  has announced it is now supporting Android with its GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile solution.   Free social messaging app Nimbuzz is bragging it will be the first GIPS customer to offer HD voice on Android phones, so customers will be able to get free HD voice calls along with IM and presence.

The VoiceEngine [...]

Website migration: hdconnectnow.org to hdvoicenews.com

On the evening of Friday, November 27, the content of www.hdconnectnow.org will migrate to a new site — www.hdvoicenews.com — and a new web hosting provider.

After November 27, a redirect service from www.hdconnectnow.org to www.hdvoicenews.com will be enabled.

The move is being undertaken to 1) Increase search engine effectiveness by using “HD Voice News” all over [...]

Broadcom offers open source wideband codec

Citing HD voice as the reason, silicon manufacturer Broadcom is now offering its BroadVoice family of voice codecs royalty-free, without any licensing fee, AND as open source software under a GNU license.

Broadcom is releasing its wideband and narrowband BroadVoice codecs in both floating-point and fixed-point C code under GNU LGPL version 2.1.   The company says [...]

Polycom's other HD voice release at VoiceCon

This week at VoiceCon, Polycom also underlined the use of its Siren 14/G.7221C voice codec by Vivox.

Vivox, the market leader in providing voice services for developers of online games, virtual words and “the social web,” said it delivers voice chat to over 16 million users and support billions of minutes of chat per month.  The [...]