I was reading the news releases over on 8×8.com today, and they just got another patent. I don’t know what the patent does, because it looks like the person who wrote the press release didn’t know what it did either, or they didn’t want to give too much information away.

Let’s see if I can describe what the new patent is about…… I recognized the word “Voice”, but that’s about it. Does anyone know what anything in this statement means?

The invention covered by the patent relates generally to speech signal processing and, more specifically, to multi-pulse speech analysis and synthesis systems. According to certain embodiments, the invention provides a speech processing method and arrangement including a process applicable for use in connection with various standard speech encoding recommendations. Certain embodiments of the invention are also applicable to multipulse, maximum likelihood quantization coding systems and processes.

Oh, wait, if they would have just explained that, “Certain embodiments of the invention are also applicable to multipulse, maximum likelihood quantization coding systems and processes“, then it would have cleared up a lot of my confusion early on in the paragraph. Now I know exactly what the product, uh process, uh, thingy…. does. LOL

If you want to see if you can figure it out and come back here and tell the rest of us, the news release is located here.

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