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RE: [ECS] size of LM.WAV David A. Kindred Wed, 10 Nov 1999 10:38:00 -0500

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Scott,

You might be interested in looking at Blade Encoder by Tord Jansson
(http://hem.bredband.net/tord/). It's completely free, and is considered by
most to be the highest quality encoder available. I don't remember what the
minimum bitrate is that you can send as a WAV file to get converted, so
you'll have to experiment. There is both a command line and a DLL version of
the application available. Many folks have created nice GUI front-ends to
it. I use this encoder, myself, and think it is excellent.

--David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Reston [mailto:ih8gates@concentric.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 10:19 AM
> To: ECS List
> Subject: [ECS] size of LM.WAV
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>
> something interesting i've been experimenting with:
> i downloaded a demo of a program called "MP3Enc" (you can
> find it at download.com) that converts WAV files to MP3
> files. since an MP3 file is compressed
> better than a WAV but handles voice nicely, i found that
> converting the wav to a low bitrate MP3 reduced the size of
> the file by 85% + without losing the quality
> of the sound, making the time it takes to email it somewhere
> much shorter.
>
> unfortunately, the full software costs around $200. not quite
> worth it. has anyone already messed around with this and
> found a better solution?
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> scott reston
> ih8gates@concentric.net
> http://www.indelible-blue.com/meetib/scott/
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