From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jhall@UU.NET (Jeremy Hall) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:38:51 +0000 Subject: Re: best sound format and app. for recording voice. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org 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. >