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Speex is free and open. Easy for anyone to inspect and tweak.
Freedom of Information Act filings show Skype has been facilitating warrantless mass spying by both 'good' governments and obviously abusive ones.
Also, the standard Speex build supports up to 32KHz sampling (a CD is 44KHz) and since it's open source, you can extend that to whatever you want.
How does this compare to Speex?
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Speex is free and open. Easy for anyone to inspect and tweak.
Freedom of Information Act filings show Skype has been facilitating warrantless mass spying by both 'good' governments and obviously abusive ones.
Also, the standard Speex build supports up to 32KHz sampling (a CD is 44KHz) and since it's open source, you can extend that to whatever you want.
How does this compare to Speex?