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In article <1990Nov7.064409.17295@engin.umich.edu> cerberus@caen.engin.umich.edu (R Eric Bennett) writes:
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>I don't know what everybody is giving gross figures for but I've used an 8-bit
>codec sampler at 8Khz, and the results are great for speech. The man who asked
>the question is obviously not doing research.
>I was quite impressed, as somewhat of a layman, with NeXT's built in sampling.
>Mac's 8-bit, 22Khz sampling, sounds awful.
>Perhaps it has something to do with the speakers I'm listening to.
>Anyway, my point is that NeXT does 8-bit sampling at 8Khz, meaning 29 Meg/hour.

The estimate I made was 43MB/hour, which will give somewhat better
quality. Sampling at 8Khz gives you telephone quality speech, which is
not too bad but nonetheless clearly distorted. (Try listening to /s/ and/sh/.)
The central point is not whether he can shave 25% off the filesize
by reducing the sampling rate a bit, but the order of magnitude.
His original hope of getting an hour into a  megabyte was off by over
an order of magnitude, and that is the crucial thing to understand.

								Bill