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Skype To Give Away New SILK Audio Codec
TechCrunch — ... Skype’s new state of the art speech codec SILK will be made available to third party licensees for free, the company is announcing later today. Skype GM ...

Skype gives away its SILK speech codec for free
Tech Digest — ... enough that those users will switch to Skype thanks to its fantastic software. It might also be a sign that Skype's considering offering an API. Opening up the service, which is famously closed, would mean that other programs could be able to make Skype calls natively, without people having to open and install Skype itself. It could mean that you'll just be able to highlight phone numbers on websites and right-click to call them from the browser. More information's available on the SILK website, and ...

Skype unfurls a royalty-free SILK codec
Betanews — ... The data sheet, which includes test results from the Dynastat labs comparing SILK with rival codecs Speex and AMR Wideband, is available as a PDF file . Charts of those test results indicate that SILK managed to maintain relatively high sound quality even at high (10%) levels of packet loss. Despite scattered grumbling about Skype's slow rollout of SILK to its very own clients -- a Mac version isn't expected until April -- the announcement has been generally received with excitement, as well as questions about whether ...

Global Phone Number Provider iNum Brings HD Voice Calling To Skype
TechCrunch — Tomorrow at the eComm Europe 2009 event, Brussels-based provider of international VoIP origination services and telephone numbers Voxbone will be officially announcing that its global phone number service iNum now supports high-definition voice calling between Skype (which now boasts over 521 million users worldwide) and dozens of VoIP networks. Voxbone will be transcoding between Skype’s wideband SILK codec and the HD codec G.722, with support for additional codes planned for the future. In the ...

iNum Introduces HD Voice Calling to Skype
Maximum PC all RSS Feed — ... global phone number is like one assigned by Google Voice: yours to keep wherever you choose to wander. Global numbers came into being when the International Telephone Union (ITU) created the 883 code, which refers to the Internet rather than a country. When the 883 code is used Voxbone gets your call, routes it to the nearest Internet Service Provider (ISP), then disconnects itself so you can use the lower cost service. The quality of your call depends on the codec used. Skype uses the SILK super wideband audio codec. Voxbone will instead use the HD wideband ...