G.711

File Format
Name	G.711
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music G.711

G.711 is a narrowband audio codec originally designed for use in telephony that provides toll-quality audio at 64 kbit/s. It is an ITU-T standard (Recommendation) for audio encoding, titled Pulse code modulation (PCM) of voice frequencies released for use in 1972.

• μ-law: used primarily in North America and Japan
• A-law: most other countries outside North America
• G.711.0: utilizes lossless data compression to reduce the bandwidth usage
• G.711.1: increases audio quality by increasing bandwidth

Links

• Homepage
• Wikipedia
• GroovyCodecs - C# G.711 encoder / decoder
• Using the G711 standard - C# implementation of G.711