🚀 go-pugleaf

I've had some comments from our vocoder team on the actual figures
involved - I was actually underspecifying the product (so much for my
marketing career)!

First, I mentioned that the frames were 192 bits each including error
correction.  Without any of the error correction, etc. crud it's 160
bits, or 1000 bytes per second, so that's 80% of my earlier figure.

Second, I claimed we could cut 40% of the size due to the variable
rates.  It's actually 50%.

That gives 8:1 compression at full rate, 16:1 at variable rate for
standard conversations.

Finally, apparently "voice activity detection" has nasty connotations
of those horrible off/on systems which always seem to be chopping off
parts of your words.  Under our version, we're always doing something,
if only at low rate, which sounds much nicer.  That really has nothing
to do with the actual output, but I didn't want to impugn the great
job our vocoder people have done.  I'll never be in marketing (thank
god!).



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