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Credit where credit is due: @voiploser and Michael Graves provided this tip In its latest filing with the ITEF, Skype (www.skype.com) released the source code to SILK under an open license, with the code presented as an appendix to the filing. Codec junkies can review “draft-vos-silk-01” at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vos-silk-01, with the fixed-point C code starting at page 28 [...] Global IP Solutions (www.gipscorp.com) has secured Argela Technologies, a subsidary of Turk Telekom, as a customer for VoiceEngine Mobile to insure “excellent” call quality on TT’s WiRO mobile soft client. TT WiRO works like most other soft clients these days, allowing customers to avoid international roaming charges by using WiFi and a broadband connection. Customers can [...] Last week, Toktumi (www.toktumi.com) announced its Line2 iPhone app version 2.0 had received Apple’s blessing. The VoIP app supports placing calls over Wi-Fi, 3G, or cellular voice services. It also uses the Global IP Solutions (www.gipscorp.com) iSAC codec for HD voice calls. Line2 enables international calls to be placed over WiFi starting at around $0.02 per [...] Telecommunications fabless semiconductor company TranSwitch (www.transwitch.com) has licensed AMR-WB from VoiceAge (www.voiceage.com), marking a push to move AMR-WB beyond the cellular world into more wireline gear. TranSwitch makes a range of system on a chip (SoC) solutions combining embedded DSPs and software suites. The company will incorporate AMR-WB into its Entropia infrastructure product line and into [...] IP communications software stack maker D2 Technologies (www.d2tech.com) announced its next generation of mCUE. The new software adds plenty of goodies for Android-based products (i.e. phones), including Skype interoperability, video call/chat, seamless call handover, cross-service conferencing and HD voice. D2 says mCUE has also been optimized to enabled converged IP communications (i.e. deliver voice and video) [...] Several requests have come in asking about HD voice companies to look for in Barcelona next week during Mobile World Congress (MWC). Here’s a short list– Codecs VoiceAge (www.voiceage.com) – Did you say “AMR-WB”? VoiceAge has formally launched its patent pool for AMR-WB/G.722.2 and made the pricing more end-user friendly from what we can tell. Looks like [...] While it’s not going to win any awards, Aastra (www.aastra.com) has put together a little video demonstrating the difference between G.711 and G.722 on its phones. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5G4pbsR3OI, the 53 second long video shows a guy with a too-clean desk picking up a G.711 phone handset, speaking into it – with the audio directly [...] Editor-in-Chief Doug Mohney is being compensated by TMC for his participation in the webinars. TMC is putting on a pair of HD voice webinars in March and April, with sponsorship being provided by Dialogic. “The Year of HD Voice” will take place on Tuesday, March 9 at 2 PM ET and will discuss the surging use of HD [...] Fraunhofer IIS, the folks that gave us MP3, is bragging about it plans to demonstrate “mobile phone calls in stereo CD quality” over a 4G cellular network at Mobile World Congress next week. Mobile World Congress will have HD voice falling out of the skies, if the rumors and releases are any indication. Today’s press release [...] Note: Phone.com is a sponsor of HD Voice News VoiceAge has plans to send out a formal press release about revised pricing to its AMR-WB patent pool next week. At IT EXPO East in Miami last week, the company discussed “aggressive” pricing changes that were favorably received by developers in attendance and said details were available at [...] |
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