Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Any Japanese speakers out there?

[n4hy]

As well as SPEEX, etc.  I agree with this.  I just wanted to make sure 
we all understood it would
not be interoperable but we could use the resource.  If we did this, I 
suspect there would be some
pressure to offer the alternative on the ICOM equipment.

Bob


Matt Ettus wrote:

> n4hy wrote:
>
> > That will be extremely difficult as the English AMBE specifications 
> > are proprietary and
> > undisclosed unless something has changed.  Reverse engineering with 
> > be legally discouraged
> > I would imagine.
> >
> > The specifications from ICOM for the rest of the system are open.  So 
> > you will able to send
> > (say) SPEEX encoded speech (hoorah for SPEEX) along the D-Star system 
> > but be unable
> > to communicate with their end users doing AMBE.
> >
> > I got this directly from the Icom person promoting the D Star system 
> > at Dayton 2004 in the
> > technology forum.
>
>
>
> AMBE is proprietary, but DStars can also carry GSM encoded voice as 
> well as data.
> Matt