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

[Jason White]

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.