Preparing for releases
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jmvalinSpeex 1.2beta3 has been tagged and will be up on the website shortly. There should even be Windows builds this time thanks to Alexander Chemeris. I'm expecting the next release to be named 1.2rc1. There's still a few things to address before 1.2, but I'm hoping the libspeexdsp API will be complete for rc1. Stay tuned.
There's another releasing coming up: a new Code-Excited Lapped Transform (CELT) codec prototype. This codec is (for now at least) meant to compete with neither Vorbis, nor Speex. Instead, the primary idea is to reduce latency to a minimum -- currently around 8 ms (compared to ~25 ms for Speex and ~100 ms for Vorbis). Of course, this comes with a price in terms of efficiency, but I'm already surprised the price isn't bigger. I've been mainly focusing on speech, but unlike Speex, I'm hoping this one will handle music as well. For the curious, I've put a 56 kbps CBR music file (original). This is still very experimental and everything is still likely to change, including the exact goals. I'm still trying to figure out how to put psychoacoustics into that. Stay tuned for the release of version 0.0.1 (or should I use a negative version number to make it clearer it's experimental?).
CELT is based on a paper I submitted to ICASSP and which I'm hoping will be accepted so I can make it available to everyone. The only difference is that the ICASSP paper was based on the FFT (non critically sampled), whereas this version is based on the MDCT. One part that is already published though is Timothy's explanation of the pulse codebook encoding along with some source code. Now, here's a challenge. Who can beat the algorithm on Timothy's page? Simply stated, the idea is to enumerate all combinations of M pulses in a vector of dimension N, knowing that pulses have unit magnitude and a sign, but all pulses at the same position need to have the same sign.
Updated: The full source for CELT is available at: http://downloads.us.xiph.org/releases/celt/celt-0.0.1.tar.gz or through git at http://git.xiph.org/celt.git
Updated again:: Speex 1.2beta3 is out.
There's another releasing coming up: a new Code-Excited Lapped Transform (CELT) codec prototype. This codec is (for now at least) meant to compete with neither Vorbis, nor Speex. Instead, the primary idea is to reduce latency to a minimum -- currently around 8 ms (compared to ~25 ms for Speex and ~100 ms for Vorbis). Of course, this comes with a price in terms of efficiency, but I'm already surprised the price isn't bigger. I've been mainly focusing on speech, but unlike Speex, I'm hoping this one will handle music as well. For the curious, I've put a 56 kbps CBR music file (original). This is still very experimental and everything is still likely to change, including the exact goals. I'm still trying to figure out how to put psychoacoustics into that. Stay tuned for the release of version 0.0.1 (or should I use a negative version number to make it clearer it's experimental?).
CELT is based on a paper I submitted to ICASSP and which I'm hoping will be accepted so I can make it available to everyone. The only difference is that the ICASSP paper was based on the FFT (non critically sampled), whereas this version is based on the MDCT. One part that is already published though is Timothy's explanation of the pulse codebook encoding along with some source code. Now, here's a challenge. Who can beat the algorithm on Timothy's page? Simply stated, the idea is to enumerate all combinations of M pulses in a vector of dimension N, knowing that pulses have unit magnitude and a sign, but all pulses at the same position need to have the same sign.
Updated: The full source for CELT is available at: http://downloads.us.xiph.org/releases/celt/celt-0.0.1.tar.gz or through git at http://git.xiph.org/celt.git
Updated again:: Speex 1.2beta3 is out.