Funny thing: voice codecs below 2.4kbps are export controlled by ITAR, right along side military technology and nuclear devices. David Rowe, who made the codec2

Funny thing: voice codecs below 2.4kbps are export controlled by ITAR, right along side military technology and nuclear devices. David Rowe, who made the codec2 open source voice codec, had to get confirmation from his govt that they would not enforce it on his project: https://www.mail-archive.com/freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00183.html https://www.mail-archive.com/freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforg... I'm not sure exactly why - someone mentioned that it might be because deep submarines have very little bandwidth and need to use them, but I don't have a reference. Nevertheless, wouldn't be surprised if google didn't want the hassle.