AUDIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DEVICE

摘要

An audio communication device (201) includes a plurality of encoding units and decoding units and switch the encoding method from one to another according to the usable transmission band or a user audio quality request or a delay request. The audio encoded data received is decoded by selecting an optimal decoding unit according to the encoding method identifier added to the data or the set information notified from the audio communication device (201) of the communication partner. The audio data decoded is temporarily stored in an audio data buffer (216) and reproduced. The amount of the audio data stored in the audio data buffer (216) is controlled so that the audio is reproduced without pause.