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Re: proliferation of voicesystems



Lucky Green writes:
> >BTW - does anyone actually know what the voice compression is in
> >PGPfone?
> 
> GSM lite and I think CELP. PGPFone has some serious problems with the
> variable latencies of real life connections. These problems will not go
> away until PGPFone makes the shift to APIs that are designed to deal with
> such problems, such as QuickTime conferencing. I hope PRZ will realize
> this.

  And Windows95/NT has a Audio Compression Manager which comes with
GSM and TrueSpeech compression drivers. 

  The problem is, what will be done for the Unix users? A standard
audio API is sorely missing in the unix world (NetWork Audio 
System and AudioFile aren't solutions)

-Ray