{"id":604816,"date":"2009-11-10T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=79193"},"modified":"2009-11-10T20:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T01:00:47","slug":"broadcom-goes-open-source-to-push-hd-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/604816","title":{"rendered":"Broadcom Goes Open Source to Push HD Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><p><span class='quick-icon'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s1.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/gigaom3.5\/..\/gigaom-shared\/quick-icons\/48\/081.gif?w=780\" alt='' \/><\/span> Broadcom is hoping to lower the price of high-definition VoIP services by <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/prnewswire\/200911100800PR_NEWS_USPR_____LA07991.htm\">taking its BroadVoice codecs open source<\/a>. But even if this move lowers the price for HD voice, will consumers pay even a marginal premium for a better quality call?<\/p>\n<p>The Irvine, Calif.-based company&#8217;s BroadVoice family of voice codecs comprises two variants: BroadVoice32 for wideband speech sampled at 16 kHz, and BroadVoice16 for narrowband telephone-bandwidth speech sampled at 8 kHz. Both will be made available as C source code in an effort to lower the price for broadband operators looking to upgrade the audio quality of subscribers&#8217; calls.<\/p>\n<p>Higher-quality calls <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tomevslin.com\/2008\/01\/hd-voice.html\">are a good thing<\/a>, of course, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voip-news.com\/feature\/benefit-hd-voice-060209\/\">may be a selling point for service providers<\/a> looking to stand out from the crowd. (Whether they can actually <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/05\/14\/hd-offers-a-way-to-save-wireline\/\">save wireline <\/a>is far from certain, though.) But quality has often been a less-important feature for consumers, as cell phones (with their mobility) and VoIP (with their lower cost) have demonstrated. Broadcom&#8217;s move to open source may result in cheaper HD voice services, but until those prices are nearly indistinguishable from traditional services HD is likely to remain a small market.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/div><div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=am_nUU-yvl4:-pu8UouLlNo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=am_nUU-yvl4:-pu8UouLlNo:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=am_nUU-yvl4:-pu8UouLlNo:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=am_nUU-yvl4:-pu8UouLlNo:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=am_nUU-yvl4:-pu8UouLlNo:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=am_nUU-yvl4:-pu8UouLlNo:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=am_nUU-yvl4:-pu8UouLlNo:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=am_nUU-yvl4:-pu8UouLlNo:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/am_nUU-yvl4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcom is hoping to lower the price of high-definition VoIP services by taking its BroadVoice codecs open source. But even if this move lowers the price for HD voice, will consumers pay even a marginal premium for a better quality call? The Irvine, Calif.-based company&#8217;s BroadVoice family of voice codecs comprises two variants: BroadVoice32 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xl6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}