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wolfwings ([personal profile] wolfwings) wrote2003-11-17 04:58 pm

MasterControl...

Harry Potter Book on CD, $50
Dual-1.4Ghz Athlon, $500
Handspring Treo 90, $150
SpeeX audio encoder, Free
Being able to listen to a book anywhere you go, priceless.

I officially love SpeeX. For voice recordings that sound unbelievably crisp and clean, it's able to still compress them down to around 27kbps, and that's in ultra-high-quality mode. If I turn off the 8khz-16khz frequency-encoding, which simply 'fills in' the voice more throughly without making it any more 'legible' then the bitrate drops to around 8kbps, low enough I could stream the entire 23 CD's over a 9600-baud modem. =^.^=

[identity profile] spittydragon.livejournal.com 2003-11-17 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Does that work on a Palm OS 5? I got 128 megs of space to burn :P

Actually it works a lot better on a PalmOS5

[identity profile] wolfwings.livejournal.com 2003-11-18 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
I'm writing the decoder/player application myself, actually. =^.^=

It KINDA works, at the really low bitrates, on the Treo90. On a PalmOS5 device it would work a lot better, since those have actual ARM processors, which have a LOT more horsepower.

Re: Actually it works a lot better on a PalmOS5

[identity profile] spittydragon.livejournal.com 2003-11-18 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Yah, its a 200 Mhz NX70V Sony Clie, just curious, cause theres allways exceptions to the rule for stuff like this o.O