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KT-Tech Sound Compression - Music at 32 Kbit/s

Posted by timothy on from the fine-print-time dept.

Robert Buccigrossi writes: "KT-Tech, whose wireless video compression was featured in a previous Slashdot story, has released a demo for real-time sound compression at http://www.kttech.com/. Like their video, the sound compression is symmetric and is suitable for wireless real-time communication in software. It sounds better than Windows Media and MP3 at 32 Kbit/s for music and 4 Kbit/s for voice." According to the site, "licensing KT-Tech's sound codec is easy," but I bet it's not as easy as .ogg.

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  1. .ogg cures cancer, too! by cornflux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This just in!

  2. President's resume by FarHat · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Wow! this must be the first company I 've seen that has a link to the president's resume right on the first page. And from the resume

    Full Tenured Professor of Mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy
    First woman to achieve the level of Full Professor in the Science Faculty

    Did she really have to mention that? Doesn't her work speak for itself?

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    At the intersection of computation and biology.
  3. Re:Uh Oh by Peyna · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Posting a resume doesn't always mean you are looking for a new job. Every professor at my school has their resume available online, it's so you can see their qualifications, etc. Thus, this is a way of showing how their CEO is competent.

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    What?
  4. Horribly off topic I know but... by Enrico+Pulatzo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can someone tell me why Ogg Vorbis files end in .ogg? What happens when the Ogg Tarkin project gets to where people regularly use it? Why call them Oggs when you really mean Vorbises or Vorbes (Vor Beez)?

  5. Re:KT-Tech's site by rjamestaylor · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I have a problem with sites that are setup up using FrontPage wizards. It's so...1998...

    As a matter of fact, it looks like FrontPage98

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    -- @rjamestaylor on Ello
  6. are you guys deaf? by VoiceOfRaisin · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    YIAAM (yes i am a musician), and theres NO DOUBT the 8kb/s file is better than mp3 and wma. but the 32kb/s and 64kb/s files were horrible compared to them. the matrix song example at 32 sounds robotic and artificial using the kts compression, very flat. the others are clearer and more spacial. in both "higher" bitrate examples i found the quality to be wma > mp3 > kts.