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From: jaw@eos.UUCP (James A. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT voice mail sample wanted
Message-ID: <1819@eos.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 23:25:02 GMT
References: <17209@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, California
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> I'm curious to see how big is is and how it is packed, ie...
> 
>       digital data | compress | uuencode | mail
> 
this is currently true, according to cognizant personnel over on deer creek
road.  by now, however, they are acutely aware that

	bits | compress | btoa | mail

is seven percent better, and all manner of time series processing
tricks can reduce the bit rate even further.

it is a good research problem to see which techniques can be applied
in near-realtime.  agreed -- an uncompressed five or ten second 
phoneme test string would be a most welcome posting.