libg722_1 0.0.1 - The ITU G.722.1 and G.722.1 Annex codecs, also known as Siren 7 and Siren 14. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The ITU G.722.1 specification, and its Annexes, define audio codecs targetted for wideband speech applications. The variants in G.722.1 support 7kHz and 14kHz bandwidth (16k samples/second and 32k samples/second) audio. They also cover fixed point and floating point realisations of these codecs. PLEASE NOTE that patented techniques are used in G.722.1, and Polycom is the owner of the relevant patents. However, Polycom offers royalty free licences to use G.722.1 to anyone who complies with a few simple rules. Just contact them, and you should have no problem using G.722.1 without any payment at all (at least it was very straightforward for the initial user of this code). You should check for any licence conflicts with other code in your application - for example, use in a GPL'ed project might be problematic, unless you run the G.722.1 codec as a separate process, and your application communicates with it through pipes or sockets. This implementation of G.722.1 is adapted from the reference source code provided by Polycom. Polycom has given its consent for this library to be distributed as source code, either on its own or as part of a larger package which they have licenced under their royalty free licencing scheme. This library has been modified to provide a cleaner API than the reference code, and to permit many instances of the codec to be run in parallel within a single process. It uses either fixed point or floating point processing, depending on how the package is configured. No serious optimisation has been performed to date. This especially affects the fixed point version of the codec, which uses some slow and clumsy ways to achieve a bit exact result. Optimisation is planned. The fixed point version of the codec passes the ITU test vectors. The floating point version produces results which vary a little with the compiler and compiler optimisation level chosen. This is normal variability for a codec of this type. On the development machine disabling the "-O2" and "-ffast-math" optimisations for the floating point version results in an exact match with the ITU test vectors. By default, ./configure will configure the codec to used floating point processing for processors with fast floating point hardware, or fixed point processing for a selection of well know fixed point DSPs and embedded processors. The command line option "--enable-fixed-point" will force ./configure to enable fixed point processing. To test the codec with the ITU test vectors, get the ITU package T-REC-G.722.1-200505-I!!SOFT-ZST-E.zip and place it in top level directory for this project. Then run unpack_g722_1_data.sh . This should uppack the test vectors into test-data/itu/g722_1. Run configure with the "--enable-tests" option, and build the software. Then run regression_tests.sh in the tests directory. Steve Underwood <steveu@coppice.org>