in low bandwidth situations, for recording speeches or podcasts, i have a similar question. the codec2 examples have a 8 KHz range so can't be compared to the

in low bandwidth situations, for recording speeches or podcasts, i have a similar question. the codec2 examples have a 8 KHz range so can't be compared to the lyra ones as is. perhaps you could encode your own voice wavs with ffmpeg and compare. in this case there's also the question of portability, can the resulting files be played on android or iphone and how much cpu cycles/battery power would it cost? I'd rather listen to 1 hour of lyra speech then codec2 speech if the battery would last twice as long.