From lojbanlists@wonderclown.com Fri Jan 04 07:04:04 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: randy@wonderclown.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 4 Jan 2002 15:04:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 24732 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2002 15:04:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Jan 2002 15:04:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail7.nc.rr.com) (24.93.67.54) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 2002 15:04:04 -0000 Received: from aerosol ([24.162.238.42]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:03:27 -0500 Received: from rnortman by aerosol with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16MVsU-0000Ro-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:03:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:03:26 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban Text to Speech Message-ID: <20020104150326.GB1650@aerosol> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: Randall Nortman Return-Path: randy@wonderclown.com From: "randl. nortmn." X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=91794573 X-Yahoo-Profile: uyndrklaun On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:14:35AM -0700, Jay Kominek wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, buzzwyrd wrote: > > > I originally synthesized at 16 khz, but it occurred to me that a lot > > of people might have modem dialup connections, so I decimated it to 8k > > to cut the file size in half. > > Considered MP3 encoding? [...] Better yet, Ogg Vorbis. (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html) Better sound at the same or lower bitrates, and doesn't use any proprietary/patented algorithms, so the encoder is free. I will perform Ogg encoding for anybody that's interested. Of course, installing an encoder yourself is pretty easy. Encoders and players are available for Unix, Windows, Mac, and BeOS, including plug-ins for most popular MP3 players (XMMS, WinAMP, etc.). mu'omi'e randl.