[Asterisk-Dev] 16 KHz audio ?

Steve Underwood steveu at coppice.org
Fri Dec 17 08:14:21 MST 2004


Eric Bart wrote:

>Please read this skype experience:
>http://www.vonage-forum.com/article312.html
>"The sound quality is amazing, like the person you're speaking with is 
>sitting right next to you. You can hear so much more than you can get 
>through a phone." 
>  
>
Isn't marketing material wonderful? :-)

>It's clear that a wide bandwidth is giving a better audio, a better 
>experience. 
>
>Skype may be using a 24 KHz bandwidth. I know that they're also using
>a very good compression codec.
>  
>
I think 24kbps is rather more likely than 24kHz bandwidth :-)

Skype uses iLBC. I think the wideband version of iLBC is 24kbps.

Regards,
Steve




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