Internet Low Bitrate Codec

Internet Low Bitrate Codec (iLBC) is a royalty-free narrowband speech audio coding format and an open-source reference implementation (codec), developed by Global IP Solutions (GIPS) formerly Global IP Sound (acquired by Google Inc in 2011[2]). It was formerly freeware with limitations on commercial use,[3][4] but since 2011 it is available under a free software/open source (3-clause BSD license) license as a part of the open source WebRTC project.[5] It is suitable for VoIP applications, streaming audio, archival and messaging. The algorithm is a version of block-independent linear predictive coding, with the choice of data frame lengths of 20 and 30 milliseconds. The encoded blocks have to be encapsulated in a suitable protocol for transport, usually the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP).

Internet Low Bit Rate Codec (iLBC)
Filename extension
.lbc[1]
Internet media type
audio/iLBC[1]
Magic number'#!iLBC30\n' or '#!iLBC20\n'[1]
Developed byGlobal IP Solutions, now Google Inc
Initial release2004 (2004)[1]
Type of formatAudio compression format
StandardRFC 3951
iLBC Speech Coder
Developer(s)Global IP Solutions, now Google Inc
Initial release2004
Written inC
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeAudio codec, reference implementation
License3-clause BSD
Websitehttps://webrtc.org/license/ilbc-freeware

iLBC handles lost frames through graceful speech quality degradation. Lost frames often occur in connection with lost or delayed IP packets. Ordinary low-bitrate codecs exploit dependencies between speech frames, which cause errors to propagate when packets are lost or delayed. In contrast, iLBC-encoded speech frames are independent and so this problem will not occur.

iLBC is defined in RFC 3951. It is one of the codecs used by Gizmo5, WebRTC, Ekiga, Google Talk, Maemo Recorder (on the Nokia N800/N810), Polycom IP Phone, Cisco, QuteCom, Tuenti,[6] Yahoo! Messenger, Ooma[7] and many others.

iLBC was submitted to IETF in 2002[8][9] and the final specification was published in 2004.

Parameters and features
  • Sampling frequency 8 kHz/16 bit (160 samples for 20 ms frames, 240 samples for 30 ms frames)
  • Controlled response to packet loss, delay and jitter
  • Fixed bitrate (15.2 kbit/s for 20 ms frames, 13.33 kbit/s for 30 ms frames)
  • Fixed frame size (304 bits per block for 20 ms frames, 400 bits per block for 30 ms frames)
  • Robustness similar to pulse code modulation (PCM) with packet loss concealment, like the ITU-T G.711
  • CPU load similar to G.729A, with higher basic quality and better response to packet loss
  • Royalty-free
  • Since 2011 it is available under an open source (3-clause BSD license) license as a part of the open source WebRTC project.[5] (previously commercial use of the source code supplied by GIPS required a licence[10])
  • PSQM testing under ideal conditions yields mean opinion scores of 4.14 for iLBC (15.2 kbit/s), compared to 4.3 for G.711 (μ-law)
gollark: The Fibonacci sequence is *not* really one of my favourite sequences.
gollark: Going on about "the common source", "yin and yang" and "the dao" seems, well, pretty religion-like.
gollark: I too love pattern-matching hypothetical physicsy things to strange religious beliefs.
gollark: What's your evidence for there being multiple universes? Also stuff outside it. I don't think you can observe any of that.
gollark: Even really weird esoteric maths with no apparent practical applications sometimes turns out to be very useful somewhere.

See also

References
  1. "Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) Payload Format for internet Low Bit Rate Codec (iLBC) Speech". 2004. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
  2. Dana Blankenhorn (2010-05-18). "Why Google bought Global IP Solutions". Retrieved 2011-06-23.
  3. "Global IP Solutions iLBC Freeware Public License" (PDF). 2008-10-30. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 30, 2008. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
  4. "iLBCfreeware". Archived from the original on December 19, 2008.
  5. "iLBC Freeware". Archived from the original on 2011-07-05. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
  6. "Tuenti+WebRTC (Voip2day 2014)".
  7. Ooma * codes
  8. Roar Hagen, Speech Coders - a VoIP perspective, retrieved 2011-06-23
  9. "Internet Low Bit Rate Codec - draft-andersen-ilbc-00.txt". 2002. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
  10. former GIPS license Archived 2008-10-30 at the Wayback Machine
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