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From: aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Compression of 16-bit sound files
Keywords: DPCM sound compression
Message-ID: <9658@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Apr 91 11:06:16 GMT
References: <rog.670690472@color> <161069@felix.UUCP> <14938@life.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <14938@life.ai.mit.edu> campbell@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Paul Campbell) writes:
>As far as sound compression goes, why not do a Fast Fourier transform or
>a Discrete Cosine Transform to get it to a frequency spectrum and then
>compress that after quantizing it? 

You could probably fit a curve to the noise values and send that!
(meaningful noise-like sound does crop up a lot)
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