PureVoice (also known as QCELP) is a voice codec developed by Qualcomm, famous cell phone chipset manufacturer and developers of the Eudora e-mail client.

It offers two compression settings: PureVoice (high quality - 13kbps) and SmartRate (high compression - 8kbps). The encoding technology was used on CDMA (which was also developed by Qualcomm).

Besides the standalone apps featured here, PureVoice encoding technology was available as a QuickTime component and Eudora plugin.

You can also check the original press release from Qualcomm announcing PureVoice.


Date: 2006-09-15
Version: 2.40
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Win32
Download: PureVoice_2_4_0c.exe - 834kB

Date: 1998-08-06
Version: 1.32
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Win32
Download: PureWin132.exe - 1.354kB

Date: 1998-08-06
Version: 1.0
Interface: Command line
Platform: Win32
Download: PVconvert.zip - 70kB