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VoIP Calls Double In Quality

Posted by Hemos on from the sounding-better-and-better dept.

anthm writes "From Newsforge and LinuxPR
FreeSWITCH, an open source soft-switch and IVR platform, have announced that they can support 16khz audio calls thus doubling the potential voice quality. They have had successful tests with a conference bridge, a pass-through SIP call and an IVR that reads RSS news feeds with the Cepstral Text-To-Speech Engine."

Voip-Info.org has a good list of business VoIP providers.

2 of 116 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Please get the rest of the telcomms to follow. by joe+155 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll agree to some extent that this is good news, but my friend, 16khz is a lot of packages which will have to be squeezed through the current pipes which I recieve my internets through; so this will make the speed of internets go down to no faster than the standard post. Did you know the other day I got an internet which had been sent on Friday! *mubbles to self*...

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  2. PING Ted Stevens by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    This can only mean twice as much material filling up the tubes.

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