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RE: [ECS] size of LM.WAV Scott Reston Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:22:37 -0500

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unfortunately, bladeenc only works if your source wav is in 32, 44.1 or 48 kHz. i've
set my bits/sample to 4 to handle routing through my zoom modem. it 
looks like the resulting wavs are at 8kHz.



scott reston
ih8gates@concentric.net
http://www.indelible-blue.com/meetib/scott/


On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 10:38:00 -0500, David A. Kindred wrote:

>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
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> scott reston
>> ih8gates@concentric.net
>> http://www.indelible-blue.com/meetib/scott/
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