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From: sampson@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Steve Sampson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: RS-232 for voice
Message-ID: <8892@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 5 Aug 89 21:07:01 GMT
References: <4069@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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In article <4069@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>, eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
> if you feel like going to the trouble of building a little bit
> of extra (and inexpensive) hardware, you might slap a CVSD chip
> on either end of your serial cable, with a few strategically placed
> buffers.  CVSD speech at 19.2 kbits/sec doesn't sound half bad.  (maybe 1/3).
> 

I checked into CVSD chips.  This is really the way to go in digitized voice.
I didn't find it inexpensive though.  Do you have a source for 1-5 of these
at less than 30 bucks per gadget?  Harris has a real neat all digital CVSD
but I don't think they like less than 100 quantity.