[Freeswitch-users] SILK speech codec, Celt, FreeSWITCH

[Steve Underwood]

On 09/29/2009 09:05 AM, Jason White wrote:
> Brian West<brian at freeswitch.org>  wrote:
>    
>> SILK will NEVER take off if they don't stop jerking developers
>> around.  I have a silk binary but its 32bit only... You CAN NOT link a
>> 32bit .a file into a 64bit .so just won't work.   And I emailed about
>> this fact and I got brushed off .. it takes only a few seconds to
>> compile a 64bit version yet they seem to not be interested.
>>      
> The submission to the IETF changes this situation in that, subject to patent
> issues, someone could write their own implementation.
>    
>> CELT will win this battle.  Its Open it works NOW.
>>      
> I hope Celt succeeds; I like its audio quality.
>    
Its early days for the IETF work, but its possible SILK and CELT might 
merge into one codec. The authors are certainly on amicable terms right 
now. The snag with IETF stuff is it moves like molasses, so its hard to 
say whether anything will happen on a sane timescale.

Steve