[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":102},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-\u002Fblog\u002Fsilentel-7-8-audio-codec-performance":3,"blog-more-\u002Fblog\u002Fsilentel-7-8-audio-codec-performance":88},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"date":72,"description":73,"draft":74,"extension":75,"featured":74,"image":76,"imageAlt":77,"meta":78,"navigation":79,"path":80,"readingTime":67,"seo":81,"stem":82,"tags":83,"__hash__":87},"blog\u002Fblog\u002F2022-10-04-silentel-7-8-audio-codec-performance.md","Silentel 7.8: A New Audio Codec and a Faster App All Around","Silentel editorial",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":65},"minimark",[10,14,19,22,26,29,32,36,39,62],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Some updates add a feature you can point to. Silentel 7.8, released in early October 2022, is the other kind, the one where the app just quietly works better, and it takes a moment to notice why.",[15,16,18],"h2",{"id":17},"clearer-calls-courtesy-of-a-new-codec","Clearer calls, courtesy of a new codec",[11,20,21],{},"The headline change is a new audio codec, rolled out across iOS, Android, and desktop. Call quality on a secure communications platform isn't just a nice to have, it's often the difference between a usable conversation and one where people start repeating themselves and losing patience. A better codec means clearer audio without asking users to do anything differently, it's the kind of improvement that shows up as fewer \"can you repeat that\" moments rather than a feature anyone has to learn.",[15,23,25],{"id":24},"faster-where-it-actually-matters","Faster where it actually matters",[11,27,28],{},"Silentel 7.8 also significantly sped up how quickly contacts and messages download when the app starts up or reconnects. For anyone who has sat waiting for a contact list to populate before they can actually find the person they need to message, that's a small but genuinely useful fix. Alongside it, the display of URL links inside messages was cleaned up, making shared links easier to read and trust at a glance rather than appearing as a raw, unstyled string of text.",[11,30,31],{},"On the Windows side specifically, this release also improved compression in the app's core, aimed squarely at application performance rather than any single visible feature.",[15,33,35],{"id":34},"why-the-small-updates-matter","Why the small updates matter",[11,37,38],{},"It's easy to treat a release like this as a footnote next to something like a major new capability, but the daily experience of using a communications platform is built almost entirely out of updates exactly like this one.",[40,41,42,50,56],"ul",{},[43,44,45,49],"li",{},[46,47,48],"strong",{},"Call quality is a security feature too:"," if a secure call is unusable because the audio keeps cutting out, people quietly fall back to a less secure alternative just to get the conversation done. A better codec protects the security model by keeping people using the platform that's actually meant to protect them.",[43,51,52,55],{},[46,53,54],{},"Speed compounds:"," faster contact and message sync doesn't sound significant in isolation, but multiplied across every app launch and every reconnect, it adds up to a meaningfully smoother day to day experience.",[43,57,58,61],{},[46,59,60],{},"Trustworthy links reduce risk:"," cleanly displayed URLs make it easier for users to recognize what they're actually clicking on, which matters more in a security context than it might in a typical consumer chat app.",[11,63,64],{},"Silentel 7.8 isn't a release that needed a big announcement, and it didn't get one at the time. But it's exactly the kind of steady, unglamorous improvement that keeps a communications platform genuinely pleasant to use, not just secure.",{"title":66,"searchDepth":67,"depth":67,"links":68},"",2,[69,70,71],{"id":17,"depth":67,"text":18},{"id":24,"depth":67,"text":25},{"id":34,"depth":67,"text":35},"2022-10-04","Silentel 7.8 brought a new audio codec for clearer calls, faster contact and message sync, and better URL link handling.",false,"md","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fblog-default-hero.png",null,{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fsilentel-7-8-audio-codec-performance",{"title":5,"description":73},"blog\u002F2022-10-04-silentel-7-8-audio-codec-performance",[84,85,86],"product-update","silentel","performance","zecgfPmInOET_8zPCT7juKe2wheol9I3jRi5glgQL6o",[89,96],{"path":90,"title":91,"tags":92},"\u002Fblog\u002Fdhs-hsin-breach-world-cup-coordination","When the Platform Built to Coordinate Security Becomes the Incident",[93,94,95],"security","government","third-party-risk",{"path":97,"title":98,"tags":99},"\u002Fblog\u002Ffbi-dcsnet-wiretap-breach","When the Surveillance Infrastructure Itself Becomes the Target",[93,94,100,101],"surveillance","telecom",1787861245507]