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

[jhall@UU.NET (Jeremy Hall)]

oh good grief.

well that might work over a 2400 modem.

I remember a Linux encoder from long ago, I still have the files if
there's interest.  Microsoft has not seemed interested in providing a
product for Linux, their mediaplayer doesn't work for Linux, forcing us to
use mp3 to encode our audio.

_J

In the new year, Benno Senoner wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Kai Vehmanen wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Benno Senoner wrote:
> > 
> > > I think Realaudio isn't that bad for this purpose (windows and linux encoder
> > > exists).
> > 
> > Where!?! Linux RA-player has been around for quite some time now, but I've
> > never heard about a RA-encoder for Linux! :o
> > 
> 
> Arg, I think I am wrong,
> I heard about Realserver for Linux, but I am not sure if it includes an
> encoder. Anyway I try to avoid proprietary codecs.
> ( Realnetworks still not able to deliver a decent realplayer for linux,
> my guess is that if they do not open their protocols , Microsoft will kill
> them just like they did with Nescape
> .. hopefully there will be a Mozilla-of-the-streaming-protocols :-) )
> 
> 
> But as Artur pointed out, GSM isn't that bad at 12kbit/sec,
> plu when searching around the net I found a voice coder which runs
> at about 4.8kbit/sec .
> 
> or if you want extreme low bit rates use the LPC-10 code , down to 2.4kbit/sec,
> = 1.1MB/hour  :-)
> 
> But I don't know if the quality high enough for you
> http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~jaf/lpc/
> 
> Benno.
>