SPIRIT DSP Announces Significant Upgrade to Voice & Video Engines

SPIRIT DSP, the world's top voice and video over IP engines provider, today announced a significant upgrade to its TeamSpirit cross-platform voice and video engines, a set of sophisticated SDKs for service providers, software application developers and OEMs/ODMs to quickly launch HD voice and video calling applications and services across all popular desktop and mobile devices.

Global study of the broadband market

A global study of the broadband market by Point Topic has found that value-added services, just as Voice Over IP, added nearly 37 percent to the basic broadband subscription while 2010, and generated $60 billion in revenue for vendors with total value-added service earnings increasing from $48.8 billion at the end of the 2009 to $57.5 billion at the end of 2010. Point Topic estimated that VoIP is the most valuable service, with VoIP earnings running at a rate of just over $17 billion at the end of 2010, with 120 million VoIP subscribers. According to a recent report by International Data Corporation, the global videoconferencing market saw an increase of 24.3 percent year-over-year in Q3 2011. Improvements in innovation and better overall networks can be attributed to this growth.

"There's a profound and growing demand for inexpensive, high quality and feature-rich IP-based communications from businesses and consumers alike," said SPIRIT DSP's Product Marketing Director Alexander Samarin. "Simply put, more people are doing more things via their broadband connections, however there's no longer room for a 'good enough' experience. Apple, Google and Skype did their job perfectly in promoting quality video calling to billions of people, on the whole, their services nevertheless miss the mark on cross terminal compatibility and a unified high quality user experience, which is in the extreme critical for communications. Nor do they provide efficient team collaboration tools for businesses. Service providers and solution developers must get to market quickly in order to deliver on the promise of high-value, high-performance, cross-platform communication solutions in order to gain and retain clients. With our TeamSpirit platform, new communication startups gains millions of users in months, during the traditional carriers get the ability to retain and expand their services' user base with their own LTE (Long Term Evolution, latest standard in the mobile network technology)/IP-based OTT/VAS services featuring HD voice and video calls for consumers and SaaS video conferencing/collaboration for their broadband business users."

The new versions of SPIRIT's TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine Mobile, TeamSpirit Conferencing Server Engine and TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine PC include the following upgrades that translate to a more rapid time-to-market for SPIRIT clients that develop cross-platform voice and video calling applications and services, as so then as a better Quality of Experience to their end users:

The new versions of Apple's operating systems iOS

- Support for the new versions of Apple's operating systems iOS and Mac OS X and dozens of new Android handsets.

- Increased performance of H.264 video, improved rendering with Android's OpenGL ES video and decreased media delay for voice and video calls for a better user experience.

- New APIs for camera switching, arbitrary viewports, image mirroring and device orientation, offering the ability to develop more sophisticated video calling applications with a better UI.

- Improved AEC innovation that delivers better performance and sound quality on mobile devices.

Samarin continued, "Quality across all platforms and time-to-market has been the driving force behind the massive uptake of our TeamSpirit engines, and we're proud to announce this latest version, which offers an furthermore sophisticated and rich plug-n-play API in other words unparalleled in its ability to help our clients quickly deliver on the promise of anytime, anywhere premium-quality IP calling services."

The TeamSpirit Engines are SDKs for real-time IP calling/conferencing communications, allowing business application developers and service providers to offer superior quality communications products to millions of global users. The TeamSpirit engine software uniquely combines scalable echo- and noise-free audio with scalable video, a necessary marriage to ensure the highest quality conferencing experience. TeamSpirit enables many hours of battery life in wideband talk mode. The voice engine includes highly optimized standard voice codecs and a patent-free wideband, error-resilient scalable SPIRIT IP-MR voice codec. The video engine includes SPIRIT's H.264 scalable video codec in other words able to adapt streams to each peer's network and PC environments without heavy transcoding, and it includes a multi-component stream protection module that compensates for network jitter and packet loss.

The world's top voice

SPIRIT DSP is the world's top voice and video over IP engines provider. SPIRIT's innovative carrier-grade voice and video software platform allows carriers, OEMs and software developers to deliver superior quality and integrated voice and video over IP services for telcos, cable and mobile service providers, enterprises, internet portals and social networks. More than 200+ million channels in 80+ countries are based on SPIRIT's platforms. SPIRIT software platforms power popular products from Apple, Adobe, ARM, AT&T, Blizzard, BT, China Mobile, Cisco, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Huawei, KT, Kyocera, LG U+, Microsoft, NEC, Oracle, Polycom, Radvision, Samsung, Skype, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Veraz, Viber, ZTE, among 250+ others. SPIRIT's direct OEM clients jointly exceed 60 percent of the global smartphone market share. VideoMost.com is the SPIRIT spin-off for multi-point video-web-conferencing service. For more information, visit www.spiritdsp.com.