Speex encoded audiobooks

[Samuel Klein]

Hello Philip,

Compact librivox recordings would certainly be a help. [I would guess 
that librivox themselves will be excited to host them.] Once long audio 
files like this can be kept in memory, a good interface for speedy 
playback backwards and forwards over a file, and navigating without visual 
cues, would also be most useful.

Regards,
SJ


On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Philip Macpherson wrote:

> I've being experimenting with different level of compression with the speex
> codec.  And I've made a 2 hour 59 minute copy of Alice in Wonderland take
> 11.5Mb's of space (which can be further compressed for storage in a .tar.bz2
> at 9.7mb's)  The quality of the audio, while not perfect is perfectly
> listenable to (the size can be further reduced but I have found this size
> the best trade off).  Here is a .spx file as a audio sample
> http://www.sendspace.com/file/6vgpmc.  And here is a uncompressed .wav to
> demonstrate the quality to those who don't have the speex codec installed.
> http://www.sendspace.com/file/oxnhtr
>
> The audiobook is made from librivox.org which releases publicly read audio
> books into the public domain.  They have numerous other children's books and
> short stories, which I'd be happy to compress down if it would help the OLPC
> library.
>
>
> Philip
>