12 August 2008

SPIRIT DSP Enables Apple's iPhone 3G With Wideband VoIP

SPIRIT DSP, a member of the ARM Connected Community, has confirmed that its TeamSpirit 3.0 Voice Engine Mobile enables high quality wideband VoIP applications on Apple’s iPhone 3G.

TeamSpirit Voice Engine Mobile will provide iPhone 3G applications developers with the platform to create wideband VoIP applications.

SPIRIT’s proprietary IP-optimized patent-free wideband voice codec IP-MR (IP Multi-Rate) has been developed specifically to provide superior voice quality in packet networks and has already brought VoIP functionality for a wide range of platforms: including PC, mobile and desktop SPIRIT Voice Engine Mobile also supports a number of standard narrow- and wideband codecs (GSM AMR NB and WB, G.729).

“Wideband voice in VoIP applications is the ultimate benefit for end-users simply because voice quality is noticeably better as wideband doubles the bandwidth. While other software vendors offer narrowband VoIP solutions only, SPIRIT supplies iPhone 3G applications developers with the wideband Voice Engine already deployed on a number of mobile platforms and delivering the highest voice quality over IP and 3G networks.,” commented Slava Borilin, VP Products at SPIRIT.

TeamSpirit 3.0 Voice&Video Engine Mobile includes a set of components to provide customers with rich voice and video experience, backed up by quality and reliability, the company explained. TeamSpirit is a complete solution which includes speech enhancement algorithms for superior voice quality, network optimizing functionality to handle varying delay (jitter) and packet loss, a library of highly optimized, low-MIPS consuming speech and video codecs and voice&video synchronization. TeamSpirit includes Automatic AEC, which can be automatically configured for quick and easy deployment and flawless voice quality.