[lojban-beginners] Re: OGG speex for files

[Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru>]

On 01.12.2006, 22:08, Timo Paulssen wrote:

> well, actually since the wav is most probably of low quality (i mean not
> audio, but data quality, bitrate and such) the mp3 will of course be
> bigger. mp3 was intended to use for music only. you should consider
> using OGG Speex instead, which is an awesome, free, patent-free codec
> expecially invented for speech (hence the name)
> and OGG Speex files will most probably be smaller than the wave files
> but sound the same (and have background noise removed as well)

> information:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speex
> http://www.speex.org/
> http://www.speex.org/software/

I have spent several... efforts trying to encode anything with this
codec. I failed. If anyone explains how to encode in Speex from Sound
Forge, I will be very grateful.


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