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One that has two codecs in it will probably sell pretty well.To obtain Motorola software see the Sticky in the Motorola forum. Getting rid of that thing will be a pretty easy sell.Īnd eventually the folks who manufacture radios want a reason for you to buy a new one. Nobody wants to pay $200 for a box with a little old TI DSP CPU and an old compression algorithm in it. The one Rowe is working on is more specialized for low-band voice radio and is a pretty achievable project, going by what he's done so far.īut whatever we use for a voice codec, it has to be achievable in Open Source as well as proprietary software, because Open Source is a great paradigm for hams themselves to do leading-edge software development that we could never get done with the cooperation of our vendors, and the vendors of finished equipment want to sell it commercially and for non-ham applications without too much expense. Regarding voice codecs, there have been a great many free ones, one from Skype, one from Broadcom, the stuff from the Vorbis project, the list goes on. First, we need to separate the radio data transport from the voice codec, they are logically separate projects and there is room for a number of data transports, not all of them narrow-band. We don't really know what ICOM is paying for AMBE+, but it's probably that much or more.īut the real question is what we do for the future of digial voice. If I were engineering an entire product line and convinced the management that I could eliminate a $5 chip with some software engineering, it would probably be an easy sell. You use my code in DD-WRT and a lot of consumer equipment, and I have two wireless chip manufacturers and a supercomputing company paying for advice between today and Monday.

Actually I have an OK reputation regarding project engineering.
