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Re: Phone voice digitization

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From: Kyler Laird
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 14:40
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In article <1233@carroll1.cc.edu> dnewton@carroll1.cc.edu (Dave Newton the Late) writes:
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>   Does anyone know what part the NeXT machine uses for its 8-bit voice
>digitization?  It is supposed to be of the type used by the phone company
>to digitize voive for subsequent transmission.
>   any help appreciated...

From what I've been seeing...

8-bit digitization is used for ISDN service, but it's really 13(?) bit 
digitization companded to 8.

The military and public phone systems just use 4/6-bit digitization.

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From: ssy@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
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