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From: lowerre@madrone.ece.ucdavis.edu (Bruce Lowerre)
Subject: Re: Do I need more than 8-bits voice recognition?
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 04:21:45 GMT
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>For speech, you could try either A-law or u-law for encoding.
>It has a logarithmic conversion such that the apparent resolution
>is much higher.

That should be "It has a much higher DYNAMIC RANGE."  The resolution
is actually much smaller.


