[vorbis] Are there low bitrate "Voice" plans

Sean Wieland windwalker at peacefire.org
Fri Sep 8 15:48:49 PDT 2000



Tom Bishop wrote:
> 
> As I understand it, the codec is for music predominantly,
> and not voice, right?
> 
> There is a mention that the bit rate could be turned down to
> (think it said) 8kbps, but how would that sound?
> 
> Regards,
> Tom

I belive there are certain properties of voice-only sound such that more
specialized audio codecs for that task would do a better job at very low
bitrates.

-Sean


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