[asterisk-users] G.729 for Asterisk

[Gordon Henderson]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Steve Totaro wrote:

> Asterisk supports this codec in passthrough without buying anything and no
> real hit on the CPU since no transcoding necessarily takes place.
>
> A world wide Asterisk system/network using all G729 from phones, to make
> menuselect and selecting G729 sounds and getting a G729
> origniation/termination is a beautiful thing.

Apart from MixMonitor, MeetMe and voicemail )-:

And calls to GSM mobile phones where the transcode from G729 to GSM (via 
alaw in the PSTN) doesn't sound that good - even to me and I have rubbish 
ears...

Gordon