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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 11:27 EDT
- From: Robert M. Hamer <HAMER@zodiac.rutgers.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: High-Quality Voice Over POTS
- Message-ID: <telecom12.863.9@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 863, Message 9 of 10
- Lines: 21
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- A local public radio station stated recently that due to a lack of
- funds, they were changing their methodology with respect to interviews
- in which the interviewee was out of town. Their previous practice was
- to have the interviewee go to a local station and interview that
- person via satallite. They said the replacement methodology would be
- simple telephone, and that listeners would notice a decline in voice
- quality of the interviewee.
-
- Shouldn't it be possible to digitize and compress the voice with the
- proper equipment, and uncompress and reconstruct it at the station,
- producing quality comparable to satallite? Is it that POTS still has
- too little bandwidth to handle digitized and compressed voice? Is it
- that the long distance companies already digitize and multiplex the
- signal they pass so much that it can't handle signal that is already
- digitized and compressed? Is it just the practical consideration of
- getting the equipment to the site of the interviewee in time (although
- any of the express companies ought to be able to get it there
- overnight)? We use various compression schemes with modems via long
- distance companies, don't we?
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