VoIP Calls Double In Quality 116
anthm writes "From Newsforge and
LinuxPR
FreeSWITCH, an open source soft-switch and IVR platform, have announced that they can support 16khz audio calls thus doubling the potential voice quality. They have had successful tests with a conference bridge, a pass-through SIP call and an IVR that reads RSS news feeds with the Cepstral Text-To-Speech Engine."
FreeSWITCH, an open source soft-switch and IVR platform, have announced that they can support 16khz audio calls thus doubling the potential voice quality. They have had successful tests with a conference bridge, a pass-through SIP call and an IVR that reads RSS news feeds with the Cepstral Text-To-Speech Engine."
Voip-Info.org has a good list of business VoIP providers.
Good Work (Score:3, Insightful)
So what? (Score:5, Insightful)
Doubling? hardly (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Good Work (Score:2, Insightful)
Big Whoopie (Score:3, Insightful)
Skype has been running their softphones at higher than 8Khz/8bit so their softswitch obviously was the first widely deployed one to leave 64kbit max quality behind.
Yes, someday all telephony (except legacy telco stuff that will never change, which will be a shrinking market) will offer higher quality audio and an option for video. But not for a few more years until the saturation of next gen telephony products gets better.
Marketing BS (Score:4, Insightful)
If anything, this feature reduces end-to-end quality by doubling the amount of data being sent down the pipe, as you'd need to buffer more data at the same transmission speed to correct for jitter. Brillant!
Re:So what? (Score:3, Insightful)