Speex dev - Sep 2004 - added background noise problem?

The background noise is unacceptable. I'll have to stick with 32kbps mp3s
eventhough the files are 70% larger.

Let me guess. You're trying to encode at around 20 kbps, you have a file
sampled at 44.1 kHz, you haven't read the manual, and you're complaining
while providing no useful information whatsoever? Is that correct? :-)

	Jean-Marc

On dim, 2004-09-05 at 23:27 -0500, Scott Roberts wrote:
> The background noise is unacceptable. I'll have to stick with 32kbps
mp3s
> eventhough the files are 70% larger.

> The background noise is unacceptable. I'll have to stick with 32kbps
> mp3s eventhough the files are 70% larger.
Hrm, I didn't see the email that spawned this one.

If you're compressing mostly voice, I've found that using lower bitrate
MP3
(8, 16, 24, or 32 kbps) for 16, 22.05 and 24 kHz sampling rate audio.

I've used LAME with the following settings for EXCELLENT results:

lame --nohist -a -m m -q 4 --vbr-new -V 6 -b 8 -B 32

You don't mention your audio application or environment.  Voice won't
suffer
if you resample it at 8-11KHz.  LAME has a reasonable resampler for that.

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