{"id":407136,"date":"2017-09-26T08:36:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T00:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/25\/iphone-8-enhanced-voice-services-support\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T08:36:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T00:36:17","slug":"iphone-8-supports-enhanced-voice-services-codec-for-better-quality-audio-on-some-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/iphone-8-supports-enhanced-voice-services-codec-for-better-quality-audio-on-some-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 8 Supports Enhanced Voice Services Codec for Better Quality Audio on Some Carriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus include support for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3gpp.org\/news-events\/3gpp-news\/1639-evs_news\">Enhanced Voice Services<\/a> (EVS) audio codec that offers improved voice quality and better call reliability, KDDI president Takashi Tanaka told <em><a href=\"http:\/\/japanese.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/22\/iphone-x-3g-au\/\">Engadget Japan<\/a><\/em> in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>EVS is the first codec that offers up to 20 kHz audio bandwidth for higher quality audio, higher frame\/packet error resilience, and higher compression efficiency than other speech codecs for a better user experience.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2016\/05\/iphone8andiphone8plus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"461\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-590449\"\/><br \/>In the United States, T-Mobile supports Enhanced Voice Services and has offered EVS <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.t-mobile.com\/news-and-blogs\/volte-enhanced-voice-services.htm\">since early 2016<\/a>. According to T-Mobile, EVS on its network offers improved voice call reliability in areas of weaker signal for fewer dropped calls and higher-fidelity calls for more realistic voice audio.<\/p>\n<p>AT&amp;T, Sprint, and Verizon have not yet announced support for EVS.<\/p>\n<p>Apple does not mention support for the feature in its iPhone 8 documentation, but UK carrier EE <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.ee.co.uk\/ee-launches-enhanced-hd-voice-to-enable-highest-quality-phone-calls-on-the-latest-smartphones\/\">also recently confirmed<\/a> that the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus work with EVS in a press release announcing EVS support on its network.<\/p>\n<p>Along with T-Mobile and EE, several other carriers in Europe and Asia also support EVS, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiercewireless.com\/europe\/vodafone-germany-claims-european-first-for-enhanced-voice-services\">Vodafone Germany<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/service\/volte\/\">NTT DoCoMo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus include support for the Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) audio codec that offers improved voice quality and better call reliability, KDDI president Takashi Tanaka told Engadget Japan in a recent interview. EVS is the first codec that offers up to 20 kHz audio bandwidth for higher quality audio, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":407137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-407136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}