[sugar] Re: Compressed speech for voice overs?

[Alan Kay]

Hi Jim --

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)? This could make a big difference wrt the 
limited storage of XO.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 05:59 AM 12/17/2006, Jim Gettys wrote:
>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
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