[Speex-dev] RE: Programming questions

[rhino64 at freesurf.ch]

>> you are better off using the vogg orbis codec. speex is meant
>> specifically for telephonic voice. it takes a single human voice and
>> compresses it well. it cannot handle muliple voices or music very well.

>That part is true, so of course it depends on the application. I guess I
>should have added that for most applications, 16 kHz is recommended
>instead of 44.1 kHz.

My problem is that the speech acquisition is done in Java. On a Mac
the only possibility is to use 44.1Khz in 16 or 8bits stereo or mono. I
have then not really the choice. On other platform, 16Khz 16bits is used.

Alain