[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk compare with Skype

[Steve Underwood]

Caleb wrote:

>Speaking of audio quality, does anybody know why Skype's audio quality
>is better than that of Asterisk to most users? I have been trying to
>figure that out but dont seem to get what may be left out, even on
>GSM. Am I looking the wrong direction to begin with?
>  
>
Skype uses wideband voice. This means you can do things like tell an "f" 
from an "s", which you cannot do on a normal telephone line. The whole 
voice sound is much more "hi-fi". The codec they use is the wideband 
version of iLBC. Although narrowband iLBC is free to use, wideband iLBC 
is not.

Regards,
Steve