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Apple Licenses QUALCOMM's PureVoice Technology for QuickTime 3.0
Leading Telephony Technology Helps Deliver Speech for the Internet
MARKHAM, Ontario - January 7, 1998 -- In an agreement designed to enhance the quality of voice audio over the Internet, Apple Computer, Inc. announced today it has licensed QUALCOMM's PureVoice technology to be included in QuickTime 3.0. QuickTime 3.0 is the latest version of the Company's award-winning, industry-standard software architecture for creating and publishing digital media for Mac OS and Windows.
By integrating QUALCOMM PureVoice technology into QuickTime 3.0, Apple is helping content providers deliver superior voice-based content to every Internet user, at any modem connection speed. QUALCOMM's PureVoice is an industry leading compression technology designed for use in a wide range of voice-enabled software applications. PureVoice compresses the spoken word, such as a newscast, to a compact digital format while still delivering an extremely high, nearly land-line voice quality experience for the listener.
Targeted for Internet use, the integration of PureVoice enhances QuickTime with high quality, low data rate audio compression for speech, enabling quality Internet playback on modems as slow as 14.4kbps. PureVoice technology brings enhanced spoken word audio while reducing file size and transmission time ten-fold when compared with common audio formats such as Wave. A typical one minute voice mail message stored in a Wave file would require over seven minutes to transmit using 28.8kbps modem. The same voice mail compressed into a QuickTime Movie file using PureVoice technology would take less than 45 seconds to download, allowing the listener to hear the message as it is transferred. While PureVoice can deliver quality speech in as little as 900 bytes per second, the technology can scale to achieve better quality audio by applying a higher data rate.
"PureVoice technology, in combination with Apple's QuickTime, offers the best combination of both worlds: high-quality voice compression and smaller file size for increased performance," said James DeBello, vice president and general manager of QUALCOMM's Eudora division. "Since PureVoice is an audio technology designed specifically to capture voice bandwidths, the difference in quality is easily discernible from other voice capture technologies that have not been similarly optimized."
"Before today's announcement, content providers were required to buy a media server and several hundred dollars worth of software to publish high-quality spoken word content on their websites," said Bruce Hough, Product Line Manager - Software, Apple Canada, Inc. "Now, by integrating QUALCOMM's PureVoice audio technology, QuickTime 3.0 provides the creative community with the ability to publish spoken word content from any web server. And because QuickTime 3.0 is supported on all major personal computer platforms and browsers, virtually any desktop computer user will be able to take advantage of this innovation."
The latest QuickTime 3.0 Developer Preview Release integrating QUALCOMM's PureVoice technology is available for immediate download at quicktime.apple.com.
Availability & Licensing
QuickTime 3.0 is expected to be available early 1998. An updated QuickTime 3.0 Developer Preview Release is currently available via download from the web at quicktime.apple.com.
Developers may license the current version of QuickTime for redistribution with applications, titles, and media clip libraries that support QuickTime. For additional licensing information, contact Apple Software Licensing by phone at: (512) 919-2645 or by email at: sw.license@apple.com.
QuickTime
The Foundation for Digital Media Creation and Publishing First released in 1991, QuickTime is the recognized leader in software technology for the creation and delivery of multimedia content.
QuickTime is used for professional video editing, website creation, CD-ROM development, and the creation of animation content.QuickTime 3.0 has already won several industry awards including Videography's National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) '97 Editors' Choice Award, Television Broadcast Magazine's NAB Editors' Pick of Show Award and New Media's Hyper Award for System Software.
QuickTime 3.0 is significant as it brings the full power of QuickTime--including the ability to capture, edit, compress, process, and playback digital media--for the first time to all major personal computer platforms, including Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 7.x, Windows 95 and Windows NT.
About QUALCOMM
With over 18 million users, the Eudora family of software products is the world's most popular Internet e-mail solution, providing comprehensive client/server solutions for both Internet and intranet messaging. For more information regarding the Eudora family of products, visit the Eudora World Wide Web site at eudora.com.
Headquartered in San Diego, QUALCOMM develops, manufactures, markets, licenses and operates advanced communications systems and products based on its proprietary digital wireless technologies. The Company's primary product areas are the OmniTRACS system (a geostationary satellite-based, mobile communications system providing two-way data and position reporting services), CDMA wireless communications systems and products and, in conjunction with others, the development of the Globalstar low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite communications system. Other Company products include the Eudora family of electronic messaging software, ASIC products, and communications equipment and systems for government and commercial customers worldwide. For more information on QUALCOMM products and technologies, please visit the Company's web site at qualcomm.com.
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