Broadcom offers open source wideband codec

By Doug Mohney, on November 10th, 2009

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 [...]

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And HD VoIP is just HD VoIP – no trademarks

By Doug Mohney, on September 28th, 2009

AudioCodes also wants to clear the air about HD VoIP.  It has not trademarked “HD VoIP” but has registered the phrase “HDVoIP Sounds Better (AudioCodes).”

This follows the discussion with Polycom clarifying the use of “HD Voice” and how Polycom has its own unique trademark of “Polycom HD Voice”

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Orange officially launches first mobile HD voice service

By Doug Mohney, on September 11th, 2009

Thanks to Claude Gravel of VoiceAge for the heads-up.

Orange Moldova has launched the first mobile HD voice service and it is being billed as Orange’s “second step” in its HD voice strategy, following its launch of HD VoIP service in 2006; over half a million HD voice handsets have already been sold in [...]

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