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Mike Feeney wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 17:22 -0400, Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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).<br>
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-SteveK<br>
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