Tieline Integrates OPUS into Report-IT and the new IP audiocodecs

OPUS incorporates technology from the widely known SILK and CELT codecs to create a low latency codec for speech and audio.

Tieline has added the OPUS encoding algorithm to its mobile application, as well as the Genie and Merlin IP audio codecs. Tieline is the first of the major audio codec manufacturers to offer this algorithm to its users.

OPUS incorporates technology from the widely known SILK and CELT codecs to create a low latency codec for speech and audio. It is an algorithm with variable bit-rate ideal for live connections since it is capable of offering high-quality audio over IP (AoIP) in real time at low bit-rates.

Charle Gawley, VP of Sales for APAC and EMEA comments that "as a consequence of the recent addition of OPUS to the EBU 3326 interoperability standard for Audio Contributions over IP, a significant number of European broadcasters have requested that Tieline integrate OPUS into the Tieline product range. By integrating OPUS into the new Merlin and Genie IP codecs in SIP mode and into the Report IT application for Smartphones, Tieline has offered a solution to these. broadcasters in a very short period of time”

Tieline has integrated OPUS into the Report-IT application and optimized it to deliver high-quality “voice” with bit-rates from 14.4Kbps to 64Kbps over Wi-Fi and mobile networks. In the Genie and Merlin IP audio codecs the algorithm is optimized for more complex audio signals such as music at higher bit-rates.

OPUS is currently available for the Report-IT app and can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store. It will be available for Report-IT Live and Report-IT Enterprise from the iTunes App Store in January 2013.