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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 [...] France Telecom has dramatically upped the ante in the mobile HD voice arena. Orange will now launch mobile HD voice service in France, Luxembourg and Spain in 2010, adding to a list that already includes Moldova, the UK, and Belgium. In addition, Orange confirmed that the UK customer trial for mobile HD voice will start [...] Ovum is putting its two cents worth in for mobile HD voice – but it won’t be money going to mobile operators. Instead, call quality might be the business differentiator between carriers for now. The analyst report also confirms an earlier report that mobile operators will make a HD voice interoperabilty announcement at Mobile World [...] 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 [...] Thanks to Claude Gravel of VoiceAge for the heads up Sony Ericsson announced two new cell phones yesterday with “HD Voice Ready” among the many many features available. The GreenHeart(tm) Elm and Hazel phones are being billed as “green” choices with recycled plastics, free from hazardous chemicals, a low-power using charger, and minimized packaging. However, HD voice [...] Going through the tweets and notes of last week’s HD Communications Summit / HD Comm ‘09, there’s another reason why transcoding isn’t the best solution to moving between AMR-WB and G.722 — added latency. While transcoding processes may be very fast, the process is not a non-zero one and adds some amount of latency into both [...] One of the “It’s not going to be perfect” issues emerging with the rollout of HD voice on wireless networks is the ability to transcode between AMR-WB — the current “standard” for mobile HD codecs — and G.722, the de facto HD voice standard on broadband and enterprise networks. Last week at the HD Communications Summit, [...] The newly announced Glass platform has onboard support for not one, but two wideband codecs. The white label/OEM business IP media phone platform supports both G.722 and AMR-WB codecs, said Cloud Telecomputers VP of Engineering Ravin Suri. Suri said support for other codecs is possible (we guessed as much) through firmware upgrades, but it was premature [...] |
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