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.

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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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Thanks to Dave from Gamma Leonis for the theme music.

Music:

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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