Re: And now, SOUND!

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Herman Miller wrote:

> On Thu, 31 May 2001 15:33:51 -0400, bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
>
> >I've taken the plunge to actually beginning to speak Praxian sentences.
> >Some examples can be found at
> >"http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/bjm10/Gloling/phrasebook.html"
> >
> >Anybody know of a sound format more compact than .wav?
>
> Either Real Audio or MP3. The last time I checked, MP3 was available on
> more systems than Real Audio. It's also somewhat less annoying, since the
> Real Audio player keeps asking if you want to upgrade it every 30 days.
>
When I did the examples for my Denden grammar and the corpus, I choose
realaudio because the resulting files where a lot smaller. I think that
was a mistake. Mp3 is so widespread that there are all kinds of tools
to handle it with, while realaudio can only be handled with proprietary
tools, and those are not so comfortable. And like a fool, I lost the
original wav's...

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