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

[Kai Vehmanen <kaiv@wakkanet.fi>]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Benno Senoner wrote:

> 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

It's interesting to see, what RealNetworks is going to do in the 
near future. IMHO RN should open-source all their players and
encoders, and for all platforms. And they should do it now. This would 
have quite an impact. As mp3 suffers from licensing problems, many
people would prefer a GPL'ed RA-de/encoder. Let's hope this happens.

> But as Artur pointed out, GSM isn't that bad at 12kbit/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/

Yep, there are plenty of encoders out there, but when distributing
your music (or some other "popular" activity), ease of use and
availability are crucial. And RealAudio is easy to use and it is 
widely spread.

-- 
Kai Vehmanen <kaiv@wakkanet.fi> -------- CS, University of Turku, Finland
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