I found this and have been following for awhile, it is neat project and could benefit us all even more so than a high bandwidth CODEC such as skype uses going open source! per the site: http://www.rowetel.com/blog/?page_id=452 "Codec2 is an open source low bit rate speech codec designed for communications quality speech at around 2400 bit/s. Applications include low bandwidth HF/VHF digital radio and VOIP trunking. Codec 2 operating at 2000 bit/s can send 32 phone calls using the bandwidth required for one 64 kbit/s uncompressed phone call. It fills a gap in open source, free-as-in-speech voice codecs beneath 5000 bit/s and is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)." It has a bit of support now, and you can even donate a few bucks to get the ball moving faster!

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