By Jeff Hecht -
HD Voice, the first major upgrade to telephone sound quality since the vacuum-tube era, has finally become widely available—just in time for a new generation of phone service called Full-HD Voice to take its place.
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, Fraunhofer IIS (Institute for Integrated Circuits) demonstrated a system based on a combination of powerful standard algorithms that can encode and decode in real time the full audio spectrum to 20 kilohertz in stereo.
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Finally HD quality voice calls are coming... most likely in 2016
