[sugar] Re: Compressed speech for voice overs?

[Alan Kay]

Thanks very much!

The 4kbsVBR seems to work very well. We'll 
compare it with our stuff, but offhand I think speex is better.

We will also try it with child voices (usually as 
you go up in pitch things get worse even though 
the formants remain almost the same, as can be 
heard from the 4bps male vs 4bps female).

Cheers,

Alan

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At 06:58 AM 12/17/2006, Ivan Krsti?? wrote:
>Hi Alan,
>
>Alan Kay wrote:
> > Squeak has some very low bitrate codecs just for speech that we did
> > years ago that are much more compressed than mp3 (by a lot). I'm
> > wondering whether ogg has something similar and special just for human
> > voice (non-singing)?
>
>Yes, Speex: http://www.speex.org/
>
>Cheers,
>
>--
>Ivan Krsti?? <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D