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Android  Project: Codec2 on Android  Over the years, geeks have
used various pastimes to feed their curiosity. A common theme in
these hobbies is communication. From Amateur radio operators,
who build circuits to modulate their voice and pass it over the
airwaves, to the modern mass market methods of packet switched
communication services - IRC, email, VoIP.  While the technology
that amateur radio operators employ to communicate have been
around for awhile, there is a large amount of modernisation
going on. Design and assembly of circuits with more advanced DSP
and SDR techniques is accessible to the average LCA attendee.
Digital voice codecs commonly used by amateur radio operators
are common, and David Rowe's Codec2 represents cutting edge low
bitrate voice codec technology - open sourced!  The speaker and
his accomplices have combined Codec2, a homebrew radio, and an
Android phone to create a low cost, built-at-home system to
perform digital voice