MP3 统治江湖二十余年，Opus 凭高效编码崛起十载，而 2026 年初，由开放媒体联盟（AOMedia）主导，谷歌、苹果、亚马逊等科技巨头联合发力的OAC（Open Audio Codec，开放音频编解码器） 横空出世，直指 Opus 继任者之位 ...

Skype has a new audio codec in the works. For users of the service, which is pretty formidable already when it comes to video and audio calls over the internet, it has one significant improvement.

Now that the patents for the popular MP3 audio codec have expired, it’s unlikely that the format is going anywhere, despite many reports that misinterpreted what the end of the format’s licensing ...

A multifaceted sound compression technology is now a standard, smoothing its way to use in technologies such as Web-based voice chats and videoconferencing. Next up: video? Stephen Shankland worked at ...

In the iOS 12.2 beta, Apple has improved the quality of the audio messages sent in the Messages app after switching to a new Opus codec at 24000 Hz, up from the previously used AMR codec at 8000 Hz.

Following yesterday’s celebration of Firefox 15 beta, which is said to fix the browser’s long maligned memory leak issues, Mozilla announced that it will support the Opus audio codec going forward, ...

Skype's got a new audio codec that it thinks you should be pumped about, and it's called "Opus." It's been kicked around at Skype since March 2009, though work didn't begin in earnest until June of ...

LAS VEGAS—The 2019 NAB Show will be the launching point for Barix’s newest addition to its audio over IP transport products, the MA400 SIP Opus Codec. The new offering combines SIP-based link ...

Microsoft helped create new technology for improving online audio and speech. Now the company's fighting against it. How'd that happen? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

The name Opus has been visible of late in codec circles, and Tieline has been a particular proponent, adding the Opus codec to its arsenal of algorithms last December. I asked Charlie Gawley, VP of ...