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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. hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mjaaaaauuuu

  2. Let me be first to say: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HOAX!

    1. Re:Let me be first to say: by Dante+Alighieri · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Congratulations on being the first to say it. Do you want a prize?

  3. Re:Yay technology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let me be the first one to say: fuck you.

  4. Re:Limited Use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hi there, you are an ill informed idiot. Thanks for your stupid opinions, fucktard.

  5. SOMEONE MOD THIS FUCKING DIPSHIT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    subject says it all.

  6. Re:as long by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it takes forever to start! what is it doing, decompressing into memory or something?

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

    This just in!

  8. YOU ARE WIN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Congratulations on your attempt to make a smartass rejoinder posting at +1!

  9. Re:as long by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no, it's just the speed of spyware... ahem realplayer... grabbing all your info, cookies, etc. and sending it all to RealNetworks

  10. 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?

    --
    At the intersection of computation and biology.
    1. Re:President's resume by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You've obviously never had to cope with discrimination in your field. Actually, you do have to cope with discrimination as you go through life, but that's just the (justifiable) discrimination against geeks due to their abominable social skills, and due to said (lack of) skills, they don't notice.

      Her achievement is worth mentioning. What I don't understand is why you had to mention your disgust at her listing of her achievement. Doesn't your idiocy speak for itself?

    2. Re:President's resume by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      unless you know her and can attest to her skills i don't think you can attest to the value of her achievement.

      it's hardly a big achievement anymore to be the first woman to do anything. you don't necessarily need the appropriate skill, only the ability to instill fear in your employer that you'll sue.

      i'm the first in-the-closet-homosexual jew, who is married to an african american, to be teaching at Franklin Community College. woot. i'm qualified now.

      i'd hardly hire someone just because of a listing like this. i'd not even want to be employed because of it if i had been the one who listed it on their resume. i'd rather have been employed because i truly impressed someone with my skills.

  11. Most insightful comment of all time... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Someone please mod this guy up as insightful...

  12. 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.

    --
    What?
  13. YOU ARE JERK! by Dante+Alighieri · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Congratulations on trying to take me to task while posting anonymously...

  14. Gulag 23 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Taco likes this. It:
    1. Seperates the sheep from the er... goats, since any good commie lunix bastard should be using Moz
    2. It forces people to stop reading posts below +1 (gets rid of those annoying cowards, dontcha know...)


    "Come and see the violence inhernet in the slashdot moderation system!
    Come and see the violence inhernet in the slashdot moderation system!
    Help! HELP! I'm being repressed!"
  15. of course I'm a JERK! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm annonymous coward!
    Say... That's a nice high UID... and you're still posting CRAP at +1. Prepare to meet the moderators.

    At least I have the decency to post my drivel at 0 where it doesn't inherently lead to the noise level.

    Sheesh, you make mutherfuckin_spork look like a good citizen.

  16. I'm glad you agree. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fine, want me to post anonymously so as to not to raise the "noise level"? I can handle that. As for my high UID, that would be a consequence of my registering with /. today. Are there any other delightful tidbits you feel like leaving me with?

  17. Re:I hate meeses, to pieces! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're horning in on The Turd Report's action. Please cease and desist immediately.

  18. Re:Uh... Dude.. This is a top level post... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Apparently, not much.

  19. Re:Realnetworks??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    whoa, slow down there, anal boy

  20. 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)?

  21. Re:Uh... Dude.. This is a top level post... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The assman cometh!

  22. 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
  23. 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.