[Asterisk-biz] www.google.com/talk/

[Dana Olson]

I have seen a softphone, not sure which one, but it uses G723 as well,
and it's free of charge. They use the Microsoft codec, so I guess they
say that means it's free?
--
Dana

On 8/25/05, Ariel Mónaco <arielmonaco at flylabs.com> wrote:
> That is actually the price, maybe it's not that much for Google. Or they
> know something we don't.
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan k. Creasy" <jonathan at bluegrass.net>
> To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"
> <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:00 PM
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-biz] www.google.com/talk/
> 
> 
> Another thought btw, who says they are paying those prices? Couldn't
> they just negotiate a deal say "$1M for all our users" and be done w/it?
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Eric Wieling
> aka ManxPower
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:06 PM
> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] www.google.com/talk/
> 
> Some?
> 
> Here is the licensing priceing info for G723.1 direct from the patent
> holder's web site: http://www.dspg.com/technology/LicensePricing.html
> 
> 
> 
> Jonathan k. Creasy wrote:
> > They probably don't have to make money on it at this point....they can
> > afford to lose some to get the momentum they need to make money on it
> > later...
> > -Jonathan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
> > [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Eric
> Wieling
> > aka ManxPower
> > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:00 PM
> > To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] www.google.com/talk/
> >
> > Steve Kennedy wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Which voice codecs do you support?
> >>
> >>Today, Google Talk supports the following standard voice codecs: PCMA,
> >>PCMU, G.723, iLBC. We are also evaluating the Speex codec. We also
> >>support codecs from Global IP Sound: ISAC, IPCMWB, EG711U, EG711A
> >
> >
> > I'd love to know how they support G723 in a free application.
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> 
> r: Generate a ringing tone for the calling party, passing no audio from
> the called channel(s) until one answers. Use with care and don't insert
> this by default into all your dial statements as you are killing call
> progress information for the user. Really, you almost certainly do not
> want to use this. Asterisk will generate ring tones automatically where
> it is appropriate to do so. "r" makes it go the next step and
> additionally generate ring tones where it is probably not appropriate to
> do so.