Chris: The old computer adage, "gigo" applies in answer to your question.
There are multiple codecs that can be used for telephony. Even the major carriers have started using a higher quality codec when the equipment supports it. You'll see this advertised as "HD Voice," by T-Mobile, for instance. The truth is that even "HD Voice" isn't the best available to be used, but both ends of the call have to support the same codec (or better). Else, down sampling and the resulting poorer quality results. Like the adage says: garbage in, garbage out. And conversley, quality in and maybe quality out. hth Janina 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries writes: > I had always wondered what it was when I would call some people on my iPhone > 6 and get surprisingly nice audio while other times it was just OK. So what > triggers the good audio? My wife and I have the same iPhone 6 on Verizon and > sometimes we get that amazing sound quality and sometimes it sounds just > like a regular cell phone. Does it depend on which tower you're connected to > or whether you're on LTE or not? A friend of mine is on Android and > sometimes I get really good quality calls with him as well, so it doesn't > seem to be an iPhone-specific thing. > > CB > > On 4/20/17 4:31 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > Cait, yes they do. I worked for a long time for Fidelity Investments where > > we built a custom video and audio conferencing system. It replaced the one > > Verizon offers. We actually took great care to have good quality audio > > along with fantastic video. We supported from standard definition video up > > to 4K 30 FPS non drop and on the audio side everything was G722 wide band > > so you’d get audio quality better than Skype calls in most settings. On > > the phone side we supported G711 and G722 which means you either got > > something as good as a standard phone call or if your phone supported it > > like many cell phones do we would go wide band so again you’d get that nice > > crisp full audio. > > The users liked it so much they scrapped the audio only conferencing > > service and before we knew it we had 5+ million minutes of business per > > week. We’d support thousands of parallel calls and were able to maintain > > crisp audio so the other guys can if they want to expend the effort and use > > the extra bandwidth. > > > > > > > On Apr 20, 2017, at 4:14 PM, Caitlyn Furness <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > Lots of these webinar things have bad sound quality-and the more you have > > > on the lines, etc, the worse it seems to be!! Wonder if sighted people > > > think the quality is as bad as most of us probably do?! > > > > > > Cait > > > > > > > On Apr 20, 2017, at 12:25 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I will add that zoom allows you to give participant's a call in number > > > > instead, a fine option for those ho prefer attending without video at > > > > all. > > > > Granted as is often the case when the audio is video based, the quality > > > > is sort of nose crinkle worthy, but at least the door for phone alone > > > > is there. > > > > Karen > > > > > > > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Kliphton Miller wrote: > > > > > > > > > I HAVE BEEN USING ZOOM FOR ABOUT A YEAR, IT IS MOSTLY ACCESSIBLE, > > > > > JUST THAT SOME OPTIONS THAT ARE available to the sited user, vo > > > > > doesn’t read during a conference, but it’s not a deal breaker. > > > > > > On Apr 20, 2017, at 6:06 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I saw on Twitter yesterday that a new web conferencing service was > > > > > > discovered recently: www.zoom.us <http://www.zoom.us/>. The big > > > > > > news here is that they have an accessibility website > > > > > > (https://zoom.us/accessibility <https://zoom.us/accessibility>), an > > > > > > email address (acc...@zoom.us <mailto:acc...@zoom.us>), and a > > > > > > commitment to keeping their product accessible. They claim > > > > > > compatibility with VoiceOver, Talkback, and NVDA, covering all the > > > > > > major platforms. > > > > > > > > > > > > I haven't tried the service at all, and am going off only what I > > > > > > read on their website and in the article that pointed me to them in > > > > > > the first place. However, things look good. 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