Re: Cellphones and Audio (was Ghost Click, though I got no idea why)

[Joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 5/3/12 10:29 , Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Adam Atkinson" <ghira () mistral co uk>
>
> > Well, just the above seems like enough that you'd think there'd be more
> > (justified) grumbling that thanks to a choice made many many decades ago
> > it's harder to distinguish young or female speakers than it is adult
> > male ones. Maybe there is and I've just not noticed it. Is this one of
> > the things pushing adoption of higher bandwidth audio codecs? (My guess:
> > no.)
>
> Not directly, I don't think, no.  I suspect it's merely "why not?"

wideband codecs carry music a lot better.

the can have considerably more dynamic range than you can expect from an
8 bit pcm mulaw encoding (about 45bB). that helps a lot in the speaker
phone situation.

if you have the opportunity to compare pstn and mp3 recordings of the
same meeting like I do on occasion the difference is considerable.


> Cheers,
> -- jra