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From: wilf@sce.carleton.ca (Wilf Leblanc)
Subject: Re: Speech - low cost
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 03:20:08 GMT
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edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:

>In article <275aol$sid@male.EBay.Sun.COM> andrewb@europe.EBay.Sun.COM writes:
>>
>>[...]
>>memory.  I would like to save around 2 hours of audio (speech)
>>information into 1Mbyte(flash) of RAM. Basically this device should act
>>as a cassete player with telephone quality.

>[...]
>audio in 1MB of memory requires about 1165 bits/second or less.  I've
>[...]
>		-Ed Hall
>		edhall@rand.org

I don't think there was any requirement for a fixed number of
bits/second (??).  Depending on the source material, variable bit
rate coding may be a viable option.

			wilf
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Dr. Wilf LeBlanc, Systems & Comp. Eng., Carleton University, 
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