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diff --git a/html/index.html b/html/index.html index e49cadc..154d760 100644 --- a/html/index.html +++ b/html/index.html @@ -73,6 +73,17 @@ You can listen to samples encoded with Speex <A href="/audio/samples/">here</A> <h2>News</h2> +<h3>2002/06/07</h3> + +Speex 0.2.0 is out. This is a major release with lots of improvements and bugfixes. First, the +encoder and decoder can work directly from wav files (mono only for now) and +the decoder can play directly to soundcard. Also, most of the codebooks have +been re-trained in order to improve quality (but this also breaks format +compatibility with previous versions), while slightly decreasing complexity. +Speex is now able to encode both DTMF and music (not as good as Vorbis of +course) after bugs were fixed in the pitch prediction and LSP quantization. +Last but not the least, the perceptual post-filter has been improved. + <h3>2002/06/04</h3> Speex 0.1.2 is out. This adds a perceptual post-filter at the decoder to @@ -88,64 +99,12 @@ from 15.7 kbps to 15.1 kbps and the wideband bit-rate has been reduced from 31.3 The quality remains roughly the same for both narrowband and wideband. Once again, this breaks compatibility with previous versions. -<h3>2002/05/07</h3> - -Speex 0.0.3 released. - -<h3>2002/04/15</h3> - - - - Speex version 0.0.2 has been released. This release provides much improved - wideband quality at an only slightly higher bit-rate of 31.3 kbps. This -means that the wideband Speex files are not compatible with those of the 0.0.1 -release. The narrowband codec (at 14.5 kbps) is however exactly the same -as in 0.0.1. <br> - - - - -<h3>2002/03/27</h3> - - - - Speex 0.0.1 has been released. This first version of Speex supports - fixed bit-rate encoding at 14.5 kbps for speech sampled at 8 kHz (narrowband) - and at 28.5 kbps for 16 kHz (wideband) speech. Future releases will likely - provide a wider choice of bit-rates, better quality, as well as variable - bit-rate (VBR) and discontinuous transmission (DTX).<br> - - - - <br> - - - - Note that this is a preliminary release and that bit-rates, quality - and bitstream definition will change in the future. This means that -the format used in this release will not be compatible with future releases. - Also note that this software has so far received only a minimum amount - of testing, so it may break or do unexpected things.<br> - - - -<h3>2002/03/12</h3> - - - - We now have a working encoder prototype that produces good quality - narrowband (8 kHz sampling rate) at a bit-rate of 14.5 kb/s. There is - still a lot to do, but we're progressing fast.<br> - - - - <hr width="100%" size="2"> <div align="right"><img src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=46651&amp;type=5" alt="SourceForge Logo"> <br> <a href="mailto:valj01@gel.usherb.ca">Jean-Mrc Valin</a> <br> <a href="mailto:david@voicetronix.com.au">David Rowe</a> <br> - $Date: 2002/06/05 02:56:13 $</div> + $Date: 2002/06/07 06:18:41 $</div> |