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Mastering FreeSWITCH
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Mastering FreeSWITCH

by Anthony Minessale II, Giovanni Maruzzelli
July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
6h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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HD audio frontiers are pushed by cellphones, right now

We've just seen that for regular, traditional telephony, we only need an audio source that is mono, narrowband, 8 bit, 8 khz. That is considered good quality, toll-grade quality.

It compares well with cellular phones' quality, which in the last decade has drastically lowered our expectations. Cellular phones' codecs did not sound very good; actually they were much worse than G711 or G729. But we're on the verge of a revolution in the sound quality of telecommunication.

First it was Skype, who introduced us all to 16 khz, wideband audio. Ever tried to listen to music via Skype? It sounds good. And speech too: You immediately hear and feel, you're not on PSTN (and neither on cellphone).

But there ...

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ISBN: 9781784398880