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 ## Credits
 * David Rowe and the FreeDV team for developing the modem and libraries -
 FreeDV Codec 2 : https://github.com/drowe67/codec2
-* xssfox, his repository helped me a lot in an early stage of development -
+* xssfox, her repository helped me a lot in an early stage of development -
 xssfox : https://github.com/xssfox/freedv-tnc
 * Wolfgang, for lending me his radio so I'm able to do real hf tests