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Speex Joins Xiph To Bring Free VOIP To The Masses

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the naughty-dirty-masses dept.

xercist writes "Xiph.org has added a new project to their plate of goodies- Speex. Speex is an audio codec specifically for, you guessed it, voice. It has integration with Xiph's OGG container, but is mainly being used right now for VOIP. There is currently an XMMS plugin available, and is also supported by LinPhone, OpenH323, and GnomeMeeting. Asterisk PBX is working on adding support. This is not a new project -- Jean-Marc Valin has been hard at work writing the codec for quite a while now. However, Jean-Marc is now a full-fledged member or the Xiph.org team, and in celebration, Speex beta one is being released. Xiph.org has brought you (or is currently working on bringing you) Vorbis, Tremor, Theora, Tarkin, Icecast2, cdparanoia, now Speex, and, of course, the Moaning Goat Meter. This is a LOT to do, so please donate to show your support."

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  1. Good technology for businessmen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    With VOIP I can connect to my dialup ISP from out of town without paying long distance fees.

  2. Re:But... by Monkelectric · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because my telco company charges me 5c/min for calling a city I can SEE from my backyard on a clear day.

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    Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley

  3. Re:But... by Quirk · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's late and I'm too stoned to be posting but isn't the migration of every electronic form of communication a good thang? Then comes mythical intuitive GUIs, and finally integration in cross-realtional dbs.

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    "Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
    Cohen
  4. Re:But... by ari_j · · Score: 2, Funny

    "telco" stands for "Telephone Company". Are you saying that you deal with a company that produces telcos?

  5. Here's my first donation by Gizzmonic · · Score: 4, Funny
    it's some advice:

    Get some better names for your projects! If a 12 year old is embarrassed to say "OGG Tarkin" aloud, then you're not going to sell it outside of the hardcore open source geek community. And I know, you're not trying to make money, but I'm betting you'd even win some mindshare if you were willing to, say:

    1. Give the "OGG" media layer a little class. Call it something the boys in marketing would like, such as "SimpleDirectQuickWebLayer."
    2. Vorbis could be known as "I Can't Believe it's not MP3!" and if you still wanted to use a geeky name, just refer to the acronym, ICBITNMP3, pronounced as "Ich-Bittin-emm pee 3."

    I'm hoping someone else will be kind enough to hire a professional web designer for Xiph, and maybe even a domain name that people could pronounce or remember. Dig deep, folks. I know it's a recession, but every little bit helps.

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  6. Speex? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Speex? What a terrible name for a codec. It'll never gain widespread acceptance. I mean, hell, it sounds like an English word.

  7. Moaning Goat?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    So many jokes... so little time...

  8. Re:Speex sounds nice by ensignyu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, I guess no waiting music over a tech-support-line-hastily-hacked-to-support-VoIP.

  9. That title-- by MegaFur · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Speex Joins Xiph To Bring Free VOIP To The Masses"

    --is a little hard to read. It looks like a line from Jabberwocky.

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  10. Speex Joins Xiph... by Spunk · · Score: 3, Funny

    In related news, Qwixm released Zblik today, the latest server in the Foogark series, designed to smoothly integrate with the operating systems Njiimakiwup, Ueltwvom, and GNU/Zzyzx.

  11. Re:But... by Skjellifetti · · Score: 2, Funny

    Such companies are called investment banks. Their stock analysts used to be able to produce new telcos for about five cents a minute.

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    FreeSpeech.org