On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:23 AM, AndyHC <[email protected]> wrote: > 24bit? - and good old POTS used to be restricted to about a 4khz band! >
24 bit is lovely if you're working with hi-res audio files, but most of the speech codecs like Speex (http://www.speex.org/) and Opus ( http://opus-codec.org/) (and their commercial equivalents) still support lower rates (8 and 6 kbps) used by a lot of the VOIP providers and endpoints. I still think that analog POTS had a more natural tone than the digital, compressed, jittery, latency-plagued digital signals. Professionally-wired and configured Voice-Over-IP with proper prioritization are comparable to copper landline, while home users who hang a bluetooth headset (analog->digital->radio->digital) to underpowered computers to Wifi to home routers tend to have pretty poor quality sound. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4vjb97yfg35n5xywrna4v_+v6_gmjym6pl_bmv5bsn...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
