Subject: [AVT] New release of Speex with VBR

From: Jean-Marc Valin <[email-masked]>
Date: 06 Aug 2002 00:26:52 -0400

Hi,

I thought it would be interesting to some people on the list looking for
a VBR speech codec. The last release of Speex
(http://speex.sourceforge.net) integrates VBR with bit-rates ranging
from 6 kbps to 18 kbps for narrowband and from 10 kbps to 28 kbps for
wideband. Speex is open-source and free of any patent that we know of.
It is still in development but we are getting close to freezing the
bit-stream. We are also in the process of defining an RTP payload format
for it.

	Jean-Marc

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Jean-Marc Valin, M.Sc.A.
LABORIUS (http://www.gel.usherb.ca/laborius)
Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada