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are there plans to add "de-essing" as part of the speexenc procedure, to make it possible to use lower quality compression without getting those horrible computer-like "ess" sounds in the finished result? like if you say "someone said the sun is shining", there is a lot of ess sounds, and these will sound "computer-ish" at vbr qualities below 9. i know

..... Unless its low (32kbps-8kbps) it doesn't compare to speex (spx). The "ess" sound you are hearing are most likely generated because the entire frame (bit of sound) has been striped of all but it most mathematically pure and simplest (smallest) representation. I know a bit about text2speech and speech2text, and though a de-ess filter on the speex decoder would be 'pleasant' to the human ear (if one finds pure tones unpleasant rather than unhuman). It would make subsequent mixing and encoding of speex streams (VoIP phone lines) less effective and more costly in a resource sens...

...s-8kbps) it doesn't compare to speex (spx). The "ess" sound > you are hearing are most likely generated because the entire frame > (bit of sound) has been striped of all but it most mathematically > pure and simplest (smallest) representation. > > I know a bit about text2speech and speech2text, and though a de-ess > filter on the speex decoder would be 'pleasant' to the human ear > (if one finds pure tones unpleasant rather than unhuman). It would > make subsequent mixing and encoding of speex streams (VoIP phone > lines) less effective and more costl...

Hello list, is there any open-source software that recodes g729 sound files to wav sound files ? The only way (at least) to do such transformation is with interactive form on: http://www.asteriskguru.com/audio_conversion.php Tofik Suleymanov

...ompare to speex (spx). The "ess" sound > > you are hearing are most likely generated because the entire frame > > (bit of sound) has been striped of all but it most mathematically > > pure and simplest (smallest) representation. > > > > I know a bit about text2speech and speech2text, and though a de-ess > > filter on the speex decoder would be 'pleasant' to the human ear > > (if one finds pure tones unpleasant rather than unhuman). It would > > make subsequent mixing and encoding of speex streams (VoIP phone > > lines) less effe...