Re: best sound format and app. for recording voice.

[John Starkey <jstarkey@polaris.umuc.edu>]

Yea, I was thinking D to D. Digidesign (studio quality) which was all i knew at
the time and I've been out of it for 5 years.

Shoulda waited before I opened my mouth, I keep forgetting that one of the
reasons I got outta the business was that recording equipment was becoming
dirt-cheap.

John

Benno Senoner wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Bryan Bolden wrote:
> > I am in school and I tape my classes.  what I would like to do is to begin
> > to keep digital copies of the taped classes on my computer without taking
> > up so much disk space.  what I will do is have the output jack of the tape
> > recorder connected to the input jack of my sound card.  I need to know the
> > best sound format and a good (maybe free but I am open to buying a good
> > app) application that will allow me to make digital samples  with mono
> > recording and at least radio quality that will not take up a lot of space
> > for a taped class of about an hour.
> >
> > I would prefer the application run on linux but I am open to a good M$
> > windows based sound application (please forgive me but I am desperate :)
>
> vor pure voice it's enough to use bitrates lower that 32kbit/sec
>
> I think Realaudio isn't that bad for this purpose (windows and linux encoder
> exists).
>
> for example the 16kbit codec uses 2kbytes/sec the 24kbit coded 3kbytes/sec
>
> that means 1hour of realaudio at 24kbit = 3kbyte/sec*3600secs = 11MBytes
>
> A 10GB disk can hold 1000 hours or speech , that is 500-1000 tapes.
>
> John as you see compressed audio on disk isn't more expensive than tapes.
>
> a 10GB disk costs almost nothing these days
> :-)
>
> PS: IBM just rolling out 75GB (!) 3 1/2 inch SCSI disks , EIDE versions will
> follow soon. (I think in the 50GB area but dirty cheap :-) )
>
> Benno.
>
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