On writing your own VOIP application

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For my final, big, worth-too-many-marks-to-mess-up, project; I’ve been making my own VOIP application. Like Skype, but for the sake of art. It’s been… tricky. Before I get into it too much though, here’s an MP3 sample of how it sounds.

If you listened to the clip, allow me to translate. I’m saying, “Hello, my name is Simon Grout and this is my project”; followed by some whistling. Obviously. There are two lots of reasons why the audio sounds like this; there are technical reasons and then there are critical / contextual reasons (which sound made up). (more…)