[JDEV] [Fwd: Cool idea! (Jabphone ;-)]

[mark at mjwilcox.com]

I think Carnegie-Mellon University is doing some research on this 
as well. I don't know exactly what (I overheard briefly at a geek get 
together). You might want to check their site.

Mark

On 23 Jul 00, at 23:31, Oliver George wrote:

> I'll second all three points there.
> 
> - Slimy
> 
> David Waite wrote:
> > 
> > I would say that just about any voice communication will need to be done Out
> > of Band just for latency issues, ignoring the issues of bandwidth through
> > the server.
> > 
> > mp3 isn't the best format for sending audio back and forth because
> > - it doesn't compress that well at extreme low bit rates. (Frauhoffer has
> > worked on this some)
> > - non-availability; mp3 encoding is patent-encumbered.
> > 
> > I belive there is a speak freely project which is an open-source voice
> > communications package, which also does party-line type chats via a
> > client-server architecture 'repeater'.
> > 
> > -David Waite
> >
> 
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Mark Wilcox
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