Commercial Speech over Internet product

SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1995 SEP 1 (NB) -- DSP Group Inc. 
(NASDAQ:DSPG) announced a new Windows product, TrueSpeech Player, that is 
freely available on the Internet. The TrueSpeech Player enables TrueSpeech- 
encoded speech to be played in real-time over the Internet.

Kurt Magdanz, director of business development at DSP, told Newsbytes, "The 
TrueSpeech Player utilizes the TrueSpeech compression technology bundled in 
Microsoft's Windows 95 and Windows NT. True Speech is a very high quality
algorithm which compresses speech. TrueSpeech
Player allows users to decompress TrueSpeech in real time."

With the TrueSpeech compression algorithm, speech is communicated in real- 
time over standard telephone lines to computers capable of communicating at 
data rates of 14.4kbps (kilobits per second) or above, Newsbytes was told. 
Because the TrueSpeech Player converts compressed speech data in real-time, 
World Wide Web site visitors have access to high-quality speech over the 
Internet in real time, said Magdanz.

"The TrueSpeech Player is our first step in enabling high-quality speech
communication in real-time over the Internet," said Yuval Cohen, vice 
president of business development with the DSP Group. "World Wide Web site
and content developers can immediately begin developing TrueSpeech Player-
compatible content without paying fees."

"Content developers who wish to create TrueSpeech Player-compatible speech
content should visit our World Wide Web site for detailed instructions on
how to use this new product," said Cohen.

DSP Group is currently developing an advanced TrueSpeech Server software 
package which will offer content developers tools, interaction with the 
TrueSpeech Player to enable advanced features, live broadcasting capability 
and enhanced server control with diagnostics, said Magdanz.

The TrueSpeech Player can be downloaded freely from DSP Group's World Wide 
Web site, http://www.dspg.com .

DSP is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

(Richard Bowers/19950831/Press Contact: Kurt Magdanz, DSP, 408- 986-4300)

>        Here's an article about a commercial company that is doing speech
>over the Internet.  Maybe someone would like to help them add encryption.
>                --Bob Baldwin, speaking for myself only.

The program is a sound-listening extention for web-browsers.  There is
really no use for crypto because it's only processing information which
is already public.

On Thu, 7 Sep 1995, Matthew Ghio wrote:

> The program is a sound-listening extention for web-browsers.  There is
> really no use for crypto because it's only processing information which
> is already public.

I can easilly imagine pay recorded sex lines or pay stock market analysis 
via this service, either of which you might want to have encrypted.

-Thomas

> >        Here's an article about a commercial company that is doing speech
> >over the Internet.  Maybe someone would like to help them add encryption.
> >                --Bob Baldwin, speaking for myself only.
> 
> The program is a sound-listening extention for web-browsers.  There is
> really no use for crypto because it's only processing information which
> is already public.


That's not necessarily true:

I could setup a web server to only listen to a socket that a local ssh
socket proxy could connect to.  Restrict the ssh session for a particular
key to only allow connection to that one socket.  Then the connecting
party would need ssh running with socket proxy near(er) their client
system and the public key.

Assuming that you have a Unix workstation with audio listening software
or a nearby PC it would be easy to setup.

Internet/Web accessible RSA protected, session encrypted voice mail.

Now if someone would just port ssh to the PC as a selective Winsock
wedge...

(I'd love an example of Winsock wedge code (A la Surfwatch)!!!)
I have a neighbor that develops one of the commercial TCP/IP stacks, so
it's quite possible I could convince him to help.

With things like ssh, it's already very easy to create secure tunnels.

It wouldn't be too tough to modify a proxy to use ssh style connections
if an initial connection was found to be encrypted (or a key was cached
for a URL).

Of course, IPsec is coming...

sdw
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