[sugar] Re: Compressed speech for voice overs?

[Jim Gettys]

Ogg vorbis it is.  Patent unencumbered, and reputedly better than MP3 at
the same bitrate.
                  - Jim


On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 05:03 -0800, Alan Kay wrote:
> Hi Folks --
> 
> I'm not sure how voice-overs will be used in the general XO UI, but 
> we are planning to make heavy use of them, especially in the 
> introductory Etoys projects. Squeak has a variety of speech and other 
> audio codecs, but the general open source software community might 
> have better ones (less space, higher quality).
> 
> For example, I heard a rumor that ogg might be put on the XO. One of 
> the ogg codecs might be better for speech than ours. Anyone up on the 
> current plan here?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan
> 
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child