“Millions” of Fraunhofer Full-HD voice users–with a big Apple catch

When Fraunhofer rolled out its “Full-HD Voice” codec at Mobile World Congress last month, a company official boasted there were “millions” of Full-HD voice calls already talking place. Well, there are, but they all sit on the island of Apple.

More specifically, Fraunhofer’s press release said-

“Every day, millions of users already make Full-HD [...]

Fraunhofer adds new low bit rate codec to AAC family

In addition to demonstrating “Full HD Voice” at Mobile World Congress, Fraunhofer IIS will premiere Extended HE-AAC, the latest upgrade to the MPEG AAC family.

According to Fraunhofer, Extended HE-AAC significantly improves the audio quality of music and speech, particularly at very low bit rates of 8 kbit/s and more. It is compatible [...]

Fraunhofer demonstrates “Full-HD Voice” over LTE + Android at Mobile World Congress

Continuing to fight its uphill battle against AMR-WB, G.722, and other HD voice codecs, Fraunhofer IIS showcasing AAC-ELD, the “Full-HD Voice” codec.

Fraunhofer is conducing a live demonstration of the Full-HD Voice experience using Android mobile phones incorporating the AAC-ELD codec, connected over an LTE network provided Fraunhofer HHI.

AAC-ELD operates at bit-rates comparable [...]

Fraunhofer IIS expands audio labs, adds three professors

The makers of MP3 and AAC are expanding. Fraunhofer IIS has expanded its International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (AudioLabs), adding three professors and looking for “top scientists from around the world.”

All total, there are “more than 20 internationally renowned” scientists at AudioLabs conducting research and development in audio coding, audio signals analysis and [...]

Fraunhofer to demo mobile "stereo CD" quality 4G calls at Mobile World Congress

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.

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