HD Voice, the first major upgrade to telephone sound quality since the vacuum-tube era, has finally become widely available—just in time for a new generation of phone service called Full-HD Voice to take its place.
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, Fraunhofer IIS (Institute for Integrated Circuits) demonstrated a system based on a combination of powerful standard algorithms that can encode and decode in real time the full audio spectrum to 20 kilohertz in stereo. Switching to Full HD, which could be done in many devices as early as next year, would also mark the complete merging of voice into the mobile data stream, a goal long in the making. …[Read more]
