[Speex-dev] Speex hardware support?

[Steve Kann]

Mike Feeney wrote:

>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? :-)
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>>
>
>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.
>  
>
Many of the MP3 players out there have recording capabilities.  Last I 
checked, all the iPods except the iPod mini actually have record 
capabilities, and you can get a mic from 3rd parties that works with it.

I think the others likely have recording capabilities as well.   As far 
as whether they can record and playback speex, it depends on the 
DSP/microcontroller the device uses, it's capabilities, and how much 
work they're willing to do to port speex to their device.  In the case 
of these music players, if it's got the power to do encode MP3 or AAC, 
it surely can encode speex.

But, if you don't want to advocate speex to those companies, you can 
surely advocate to whatever company makes the thing you have (i'm not 
sure why you haven't shared that information here yet).

-SteveK


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