[speex-dev] Some simple questions

[Jean-Marc Valin]

> How big are speex "chunks?"  Are we talking about groups of seconds, 
> or fractions of seconds?  If they're small enough, that might make 
> Speex a good solution for speech generation, given a large enough 
> fragment dictionary... hrm.

Speex frames ("chunks") are 20 ms long. However, you can compress single
frames efficiently using Speex, because Speex makes use of the previous
frame(s) when encoding a frame.

        Jean-Marc


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Jean-Marc Valin, M.Sc.A., ing. jr.
LABORIUS (http://www.gel.usherb.ca/laborius)
Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada


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