DECT phone uses voice and audio engine

LG-Nortel has incorporated Spirit's high-quality voice and audio engine into its next generation wireless DECT phone.

LG-Nortel has incorporated Spirit's high-quality voice and audio engine into its next generation wireless DECT phone.

LG Electronics (LGE) and Nortel's joint venture is focused on realising the powerful potential of 3G UMTS solution with HSDPA.

Today, subscribers of new wireless multimedia services such as high-speed music transfers, real-time, DVD-quality video, gaming applications, videoconferencing and split-second multimedia collaboration across HSDPA, WiMAX, Wi-Fi networks will use high-quality voice and audio.

LG-Nortel DECT phones with Spirit's voice and audio engine inside are enabled to receive but also to instantly deliver visual information to another cellular, wired, or cordless phone.

Spirit provided its high quality audio engine that maintains low MIPS requirements for industry-standard voice codecs.

That empowers these next-generation PSTN phones to support a wide range of value-added, multimedia, audiovisual features, particularly customised ring tones, desktop images and emoticons, voice and video mails.

"Through partnering with LG-Nortel, Spirit delivers multimedia communications to millions of people worldwide with exceptional quality and functionality", commented Andrew Sviridenko, Spirit DSP founder and Chairman.

"For more than 10 years Spirit's expertise has been quality voice and audio cross-platform delivery, from wired telephony, to DECT, to PC, to 3G mobile".

"Spirit high-quality voice products are available to people in 70 countries through 200+ OEM and software companies that are Spirit clients".

DECT phones are coming today to the most European homes.

According to the "DECT Industry report, 2004" issued by WTIS, DECT has quietly secured the major consumer market.

The cordless market accounts for the bulk of the 35 million DECT shipments, 85% within Europe, 15% outside, in 2004.

Reportedly, analogue cordless will be extinct in Europe by 2007.

And whereas 20% of the residential market will retain the corded phone, most homes and enterprises will have multiple DECT phones.

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