From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat Apr 13 21:41:47 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 14 Apr 2002 04:41:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 79632 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2002 04:41:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Apr 2002 04:41:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (216.231.54.78) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Apr 2002 04:41:47 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16wbqS-00089n-00 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 21:42:32 -0700 Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 21:42:32 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: poem recordings (was: Re: [lojban] Re: brify) Message-ID: <20020414044232.GE19164@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <02041217312000.01266@linux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Robin Lee Powell X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=66827819 X-Yahoo-Profile: robinleepowell On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:08:46PM -0000, aolung wrote: > --- In lojban@y..., Bj??rn Gohla wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > i suppose it would be illuminating to have recordings of the same poem by > > > others to compare. > > Good idea! Mine is recorded in RealAudio - You *should* be able to download > > RealAudio player for free! (I prefer this format to MP3 or others - > for purposes like these - because the files created are a lot less > huge, xirli'u.rm is only 152 KB). Two things: 1. Speech is *REALLY* simple to encode. If your mp3 files are larger than, say, 256KB per *minute*, you need to turn your mp3 encoding *way* down. 24KHz, mono, 64Kbps should be *more* than sufficient. Heck, 32Kbps is probably plenty. Voice is *really* cheap to encode. 2. Where is your recording? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/