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From: cerberus@caen.engin.umich.edu (R Eric Bennett)
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Subject: Re: A simple, practical sound board
Summary: You need about 29Meg for an hour of speech
Keywords: 29 Meg 8-bit speech
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Date: 7 Nov 90 06:44:09 GMT
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I don't know what everybody is giving gross figures for but I've used an 8-bit
codec sampler at 8Khz, and the results are great for speech. The man who asked
the question is obviously not doing research.
I was quite impressed, as somewhat of a layman, with NeXT's built in sampling.
Mac's 8-bit, 22Khz sampling, sounds awful.
Perhaps it has something to do with the speakers I'm listening to.
Anyway, my point is that NeXT does 8-bit sampling at 8Khz, meaning 29 Meg/hour.
And, it sounds darn good.

Eric Bennett
cerberus@caen.engin.umich.edu