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From: CCDN@levels.sait.edu.au (david newall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: FCC doing it again...
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Date: 18 Dec 89 11:45:08 GMT
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poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser) writes:
> (The theoretically ideal technique [for speech compression in telephone
> systems] is to recognize the speech at the input, transmit codes for the
> recognized segments, and then resynthesize it again. Since speech
> recognition is hard, this kind of compression is hard too.)

What comes out of this "theoretically ideal" technique would sound like me?
Or is it not "theoretically" useful to be able to recognise someone's voice?
Humbug!


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