Hi, for speech I would suggest 44.1 and 64 kbps. If it is a performance, sound seeing tour, or historical event I would consider either 96 or 128 for speech only. This does not apply to the earlier posts on music and cd quality.
Judy -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Richard Claypool Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 3:12 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: bit rate and sample rate Hi, I have no idea where you pulled this info, but a cd is not 128kbps. that's the min you'd want to use, but I'd suggest 192kbps. If you want lossless i.e. cd sounding recordings, use flac. Ave Rickamus twitter http://twitter.com/elheme msn bellevue....@gmail.com skype lord_of_beer last fm http://www.last.fm/user/lord_of_beer ----- Original Message ----- From: "brandon armstrong" <stunners...@gmail.com> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 4:01 PM Subject: Re: bit rate and sample rate > if you want to make decent recordings, your sample rate should be 44.1 for > cd quality and your bit rate or the rate that data is processed per second > should be at 128 kbps or killabites per second. > that's the quality of most cd recordings. > Brandon > On Apr 25, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Joe wrote: > >> Here's an interesting question. I've experimented with a lot of different >> bit rates and sample rates doing voice recordings but still don't know >> what combination of the two give good enough quality for speech. I know >> you need higher rates for music, at least 128KBPS. I'm only talking about >> voice recordings using a mic at this point. What combination of bit and >> sample rate will take the least space and give me fair quality speech >> audio. What should be higher. The bit rate, or the sample rate. I'm >> talking about MP 3 files. I'd like to get a better understanding of this. >> Thanks in advance. Joe. >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 3832 (20090206) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3832 (20090206) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
