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<DIV><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi
Luke,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>It's
important to compare apples and pears though.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
card you mentioned has 24 on board Digital Signal Processors that enable it to
do the following:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<LI><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Tone
Detection</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Voice
Activity Detection</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Conferencing with automatic Gain Control and echo
cancellation</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Continuous full duplex audio support</FONT></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Speech recognition support</FONT></SPAN></LI></UL>
<DIV><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>This
means for example that the card could be used for a conferencing application
with 24 users with echo cancellation/ gain control being handled by the card -
and not having to be processed by the central CPU.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=060353509-29112005></SPAN><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Full information can be found
here:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><STRONG><A
href="http://tinyurl.com/dnphn">http://tinyurl.com/dnphn</A></STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><STRONG>I hope this clarifies
things.</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=060353509-29112005><STRONG>David</STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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