LHS Episode #085: David Rowe on Codec2

by Black Sparrow Media Episode #85 Duration: 00:54:58

Please join us for a special episode of Linux in the Ham Shack. In Episode #085, the hosts interview a vibrant and brilliant engineer from Adelaide, South Australia, named David Rowe. He is the mastermind behind the codec2 open voice codec among several other worthy and equally brilliant open source projects. He dabbles in VoIP, hardware, Open Source advocacy, engineering, voice compression, amateur radio and other endeavors far too numerous to name. David Rowe is definitely one of the more special people occupying our planet and our interview with him is nothing short of amazing. Please tune in and have your mind blown. We look forward to the overspray.

Introduction:

  • “You know it’s summer in Texas, because all the truck tires shed their winter coats.”

  • This episode, an interview with David Rowe, VK5DGR.

Topics:

  • Our hosts conduct a lively conversation with David Rowe, VK5DGR, from Adelaide, South Australia.

  • David is the author of Codec 2,, an open source speech codec designed for communications quality speech.

  • You can find more information about David and his project on his blog.

  • Powerpoint presentations and Youtube videos of how Codec 2 works are available on his Codec 2 blog page.

  • You can see David’s presentation of Codec2 at linux.conf.au here.

  • David then describes the Mesh Potato project, an open hardware product designed specifically to build telephone networks without infrastructure like cell phone towers or land lines.

  • The Mesh Potato is available for purchase.

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Music:

  • None.

http://media.blubrry.com/lhspodcast_mp3/mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2012/Codec_2_Open_Source_Speech_Coding_at_2400_bits_and_Below.ogv

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