I'm interested in settling in my own mind what makes speech intelligible. In past wanderings of the WEB I have gathered the impression that there are a wide variety of compression.decompression algorithms available depending on your optimization target. Unfortunately, I don't have a good record of where I've been. I'm doing this on a hobbyist budget ( ie $ = 0 ). Could someone point me to a source of FREE exe's or DLL's. [That is free as in "free beer", free as in "free speech" optional] Are any of the algorithm's describable in Scilab. Speed of conversion process is irrelevant. I'm dealing with data stored on disk &/or CD. Thank you.
Probably NAIVE question on (lossy?) voice compression
Started by ●April 19, 2004
Reply by ●April 19, 20042004-04-19
Richard Owlett wrote:> I'm interested in settling in my own mind what makes speech intelligible. > > In past wanderings of the WEB I have gathered the impression that there > are a wide variety of compression.decompression algorithms available > depending on your optimization target. Unfortunately, I don't have a > good record of where I've been. > > I'm doing this on a hobbyist budget ( ie $ = 0 ). > > Could someone point me to a source of FREE exe's or DLL's. [That is free > as in "free beer", free as in "free speech" optional]My HawkVoiceDI is free both ways. The list of codecs it includes, with some short voice samples, is here: http://www.hawksoft.com/hawkvoice/codecs.shtml> Are any of the algorithm's describable in Scilab. Speed of conversion > process is irrelevant. I'm dealing with data stored on disk &/or CD. > > Thank you.-- Phil Frisbie, Jr. Hawk Software http://www.hawksoft.com