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Re: [codec] WG Review: Internet Wideband Audio Codec (codec)

Steve Underwood <steveu@coppice.org> Tue, 05 January 2010 12:35 UTC

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On 01/05/2010 06:16 PM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> Mans Nilsson writes:
>> But we are not running out of proposals for codecs to adapt. Both 
>> CELT and SILK seem reasonable.
>
> Speaking for me as a user, MP3 and AAC are at least worthy of 
> consideration. Someone said on this list that they waste bandwidth, 
> but VoIP's main problem for me as a user is low speech quality, not 
> unacceptable traffic. I hear fine voice quality on 128kbps mp3 radio 
> streams and really fine on 176kbps ogg; I'd like to have that for 
> phone calls.
AAC LD might be a candidate, but AAC, MP3 and Vorbis never will. Their 
algorithmic latency makes them a very poor choice for interactive use.

Steve

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