From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Jun 03 17:59:42 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hv0v5-00053e-1G for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:59:41 -0700 Received: from smtp1.isgenesis.com ([168.215.170.6] helo=isgenesis.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hv0uz-00050a-VH for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:59:38 -0700 Received: from [168.215.170.1] (HELO [10.222.0.214]) by isgenesis.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.5) with ESMTPS id 2612412 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:59:29 -0500 Message-ID: <466363EC.5070005@spamcop.net> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:59:24 -0500 From: Charles Duffy User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: mp3 files: can you help? References: <1180908797.46633cfd69599@ssl0.ovh.net> In-Reply-To: <1180908797.46633cfd69599@ssl0.ovh.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 2.9 X-Spam-Score-Int: 29 X-Spam-Bar: ++ X-archive-position: 4848 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: cduffy@spamcop.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners m.kornig@sondal.net wrote: > Clearly, 64kbps doesn't seem to be sufficient > for speech. Due to this technical problem Matt's > "p" in "pa" is absent and his "c" in "ci" is > very shrill. > I would be curious to know if you see these same issues when using Speex (a codec built with speech in mind; its maximum bitrate, in ultra-wideband mode, is 44kbps). I'd try recording a few samples of my own, but (1) I'm not absolutely certain of my pronunciation (though I certainly hope that I haven't mislearned it), and (2) I don't have a microphone. http://www.speex.org/