Hello, This is really a user question, but I couldn't find the speex-user list (i.e., there wasn't one) so I hope posting it here will be okay. So, one day I was browsing around the Ogg site, already a fan of Vorbis and FLAC, and I came across Speex. Hey, this looks cool, I said. So I played around with it by encoding various voice recordings, and was quite pleased with the results. But they were just tests. Too bad I don't have much of a real use for this format, I thought to myself. Meanwhile, I have a small voice recorder device I got as a birthday present one year (2004). It's nifty for recording lots of stuff at once, although the quality kind of sucks. I bring it home at the end of the day, load up Windows 98 and a proprietary program, and convert the small, crappy files I get off the device into huge WAVs, which I then convert to huge FLACs. Now these days I'm thinking I'd like to start using a free OS like GNU/Linux, and what a pity it will be that I can't use this voice recorder anymore. It was inevitable that I would eventually put two and two together: Hey, why can't something like this device use Speex? So my questions are: Do little pocket recorders exist that support Speex? (I'm assuming not because they would probably be mentioned on the website if they did, but it can't hurt to ask.) If not, would making such devices be practical? If so, who should I write to and say that I want Speex support, or what else needs to be done? Thanks and nice work, -graue
I'm not aware of any hardware player supporting Speex, but if you want to contact companies, you can always start with Rio, iRiver, ... or Apple? :-) Jean-Marc Le mardi 14 juin 2005 ? 16:45 -0400, Mike Feeney a ?crit :> Hello, > > This is really a user question, but I couldn't find the speex-user list > (i.e., there wasn't one) so I hope posting it here will be okay. > > So, one day I was browsing around the Ogg site, already a fan of Vorbis > and FLAC, and I came across Speex. Hey, this looks cool, I said. So I > played around with it by encoding various voice recordings, and was > quite pleased with the results. But they were just tests. Too bad I > don't have much of a real use for this format, I thought to myself. > > Meanwhile, I have a small voice recorder device I got as a birthday > present one year (2004). It's nifty for recording lots of stuff at once, > although the quality kind of sucks. I bring it home at the end of the > day, load up Windows 98 and a proprietary program, and convert the > small, crappy files I get off the device into huge WAVs, which I then > convert to huge FLACs. Now these days I'm thinking I'd like to start > using a free OS like GNU/Linux, and what a pity it will be that I can't > use this voice recorder anymore. > > It was inevitable that I would eventually put two and two together: Hey, > why can't something like this device use Speex? > > So my questions are: > > Do little pocket recorders exist that support Speex? (I'm assuming not > because they would probably be mentioned on the website if they did, but > it can't hurt to ask.) > > If not, would making such devices be practical? > > If so, who should I write to and say that I want Speex support, or what > else needs to be done? > > Thanks and nice work, > -graue > > _______________________________________________ > Speex-dev mailing list > Speex-dev@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/speex-dev-- Jean-Marc Valin <Jean-Marc.Valin@USherbrooke.ca> Universite de Sherbrooke
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 17:22 -0400, Jean-Marc Valin wrote:> I'm not aware of any hardware player supporting Speex, but if you want > to contact companies, you can always start with Rio, iRiver, ... or > Apple? :-)Okay. You didn't give me any details though. I mean, is it actually feasible? And the point is to record, not just play. The device I'm talking about, that I wish supported Speex, is a dedicated recorder. It's shaped roughly like one of those USB flash drives you can get that hold 128-1024 MB. It has a little display that lets you see your recordings, when they were recorded and how long they are. And it lets you choose between HQ ("barely passable quality"), FQ ("bad quality"), and "really bad quality" (I forget the real name of this because I never use it). It can store 2, 4, or 8 hours of voice recordings depending on the quality setting you use. Finally, it encodes all of the audio in some terrible speech compression format that's probably patented and conveniently can't be sent to my friends or played in any application but the manufacturer's. I transfer the audio in this format using USB. Do Rio, iRiver, and Apple make such things? I know they make mp3 (et al) players, but that's not what I'm talking about. Although I guess I wouldn't mind if the hypothetical Speex recorder had other capabilities. Thanks, -graue