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IVOX The Interactive VOice eXchange Application NEWLINK Technical Report 101 R. Brian AdamsonNEWLINK Global Engineering Corporation6186B Old Franconia RoadAlexandria, VA 22310(703) 971-3303 Overview The Interactive VOice eXchange (IVOX) software application provides real-time interactive voice communication over computer data networks. IVOX uses advanced voice compression techniques to maintain very low data rates. This allows useful voice communication over existing computer network connections without a significant impact on other data communications (i.e. email, file transfer, etc). IVOX provides a simple graphical user interface for call setup and management. IVOX allows for cross platform interoperability with versions for Windows 95/NT, Linux, Sun SPARCStation, Silicon Graphics, and Hewlett Packard workstations. Support for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Apple MacOS platforms is in development. Theory of OPeration IVOX currently operates over Internet Protocol (IP) packet switched data networks. As with other IP services (email, file transfer, world-wide web), this allows for operation over networks supporting a large variety of connection types (e.g. Ethernet, FDDI, dial-up connections, etc) such as the global Internet, the military’s Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET), etc. IVOX’s low data rate operation makes real-time interactive voice communication possible across almost any type of network connectivity. IVOX digitizes voice using the computer’s built-in audio hardware and then compresses the audio data using speech compression to continuous data rates as low as 600 bits-per-second (BPS). Additionally, IVOX employs a silence detection technique to reduce the average data rate to even lower rates. For example, IVOX uses the Federal Standard 1015 Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) speech compression to achieve a data rate of 2400 BPS. With silence detection removing the gaps between words or during pauses in speech, the typ