Toshiba joins G.729 consortium for speech coding

MONTREAL - Toshiba Corporation has joined the G.729 consortium that already includes France Telecom, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Universite de Sherbrooke. The G.729 is an audio data compression algorithm developed by Sipro Lab Telecom for voice that compresses voice audio in chunks of 10 milliseconds. G.729 is mostly used in VoIP applications for its low bandwidth requirement. The codec is considered to be a breakthrough in the field of digital audio compression, offering opportunities for significant increases in bandwidth utilization to existing telephony and wireless applications. The G.729 standard and its annexes, an ITU (International Telecommunication...