RTAudio is a
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produced adaptive wide-band speech codec. It is used by
Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) and the related OCS clients (
Microsoft Office Communicator, and
Microsoft Live Meeting Console).
RTAudio was designed for real-time two-way
Voice over IP
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(
VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The terms Interne ...
) applications. Some of the target applications include games, audio conferencing, and wireless applications over IP. RTAudio is the preferred
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Real-Time audio codec, and is the default voice codec for
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’s Unified Communications platforms.
The RTAudio encoder is capable of encoding single-channel (mono), 16 bit per sample audio signals. The encoder can be configured to operate either in the Narrow Band mode (8 kHz sampling rate) or the Wide Band mode (16 kHz sampling rate). The RTAudio decoder has a built-in
jitter control module as well as an error concealment module.
Licensing
RTAudio is a proprietary codec. Like
RTVideo, this protocol can also be licensed from Microsoft.
External links
Overview of the Microsoft RTAudio Speech codec
Audio codecs
Speech codecs
Microsoft proprietary codecs
Wideband codecs
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