Silk Voip Wideband Codec Is being released By Skype
Silk Voip Wideband Codec Is being released By Skype
Skype is one of the best voip providers. Skype uses Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which allows users to make voice calls for free to other Skype users on a computer or supported mobile phones, using the Wi-Fi hotspot. Also, landline numbers can be called, but at a charge that differs from country to country.
Skype VOIP has slowly started making its image stronger in the VOIP market. It has started opening up their propietary audio codecs to the entire VOIP industry.Skype has some great in house audio codecs which are capable of delivering greater sound quality at a much lower bandwidth usage but it was not readily available for third party integration.
Skype has finally released a new version named ‘ SILK ‘ which is a New Skype-designed and developed default audio codec for all Skype-to-Skype calls. SILK is currently being used in the latest version of Skype.
SILK is Skype’s signature super wideband audio codec which achieves super wideband audio quality using 50% less network bandwidth than previously required. Silk is the outcome of a three year long development process in the Skype labs .
It mainly focused on four things:
improving audio bandwidth ranging from 8 kHz to 12 kHz, which indicates that a SILK conversation sounds like if you and the person whom you speaking to are in the same room. Bandwidth of SILK can go upto 24 Khz.
providing real-time bandwidth scalability to enable them to deal with degraded and unfavourable network conditions.
balancing codec optimization between voice, music and background noise .An imbalance between any of these three can have really have an adverse impact on the overall user experience.
delivering a robust solution which would deliver a more consistent audio experience, irrespective of the network conditions and an individual user’s voice signature.
SILK version was notable as being capable of narrowband (8KHz), wide band (16KHz) and super-wideband (24KHz) sample rates. Skype claims that the codec dynamically adapts both sample rate and bitrate in response to the variable network quality. They have published a PDF with a very general overiew of codec performance expressed in terms of bitrates, CPU requirements and MOS scores.
According to Skype , Silk can run on x86 chipsets for Windows, Macintosh and Linux systems, and the software has been run on Arm and MIPS chip platforms.
In addition to Skype 4.0 for Windows, the high-quality codec is available on Macintosh beta version 2.8, with a final Mac version coming in April. Linux is on a similar timeline.
The company is making the codec freely available to the third-party developers so that they can use it in any device or application, with or without Skype.
Skype is now expecting that industry and third party application developers will adopt SILK as a standard in wideband audio.
Despite the fact that Silk represents “a very significant chunk” of Skype research and development investments, the company is releasing it in order to make its popular peer-to-peer voice application work with a wide range of hardware and software clients, those could include PC software, headsets, videoconferencing systems, cordless phones and mobile phones.
Making SILK available enables and encourages to open the door to its adoption as the standard across a huge range of platforms, applications and devices by web developers and chip manufacturers, as well as consumer electronics and mobile device manufacturers. By offering it for free, one of the main and the biggest hurdles to adoption of wideband audio: i.e the cost is being removed.The aim is to establish a new industry-wide standard in speech processing: clearer, richer, and warmer audio.
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