On 18 Mar 2015 11:27:02 GMT, lanky <lankydave@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I have been messing around reducing the sample rates on some of the
>> high rate stereo spoken voice rips. My goal is the minimum
>reasonable
>> file size. For voice it would seem that 3-5 KHZ would be fine but I
>> see settings here that seem way bigger. What are the preferred
>> settings folks find that work? If you can spare a bit of why I
>could
>> use that too. ;-) Thanks for any help!
>
>Based entirely upon my own experience, hearing quality and storage
>size - I decided to use 48Kb/s bit rate and 44KHz mono sample rate
>for voice audio as in audiobooks.
>The "standard" these days is tending towards 64/44 mono, or 64/22
>stereo. (I don't like stereo for normal voice audio) My experience
>leads me to conclude that increasing the bit rate above 64 KB/s is
>merely a waste of storage space for 99% of voice audio. The other 1%
>is "special effect" audio as in "a movie in your mind" stuff.
>There is a lot of 32/22 recordings about but these are nearly always
>noticeably of lower quality, sometimes so annoyingly so as to lead to
>deletion :)
>A sample rate of less than 32 is usually unacceptably rough to me. I
>do have some 16 KHz stereo voice stuff but I have manipulated it,
>usually, in cool edit or similar to make it less tinny, echoey etc.
>I am talking about audiobooks which last several hours, so irksome
>sound quality builds up after a while. If you find 3-5Khz OK then your
>ears are very different to mine, but its a free world.....
>lanky
>
>I'd give you a piece of my mind, but I'm on the last one
FWIW 48 K sample rate will reproduce 24KHz. FM radio has a pass band
of 20 KHz. AM Radio is 5 KHz. Voice rolls off at below 3KHz. That
has me re sampling a lot of the big stuff to 12 KB @ 30 or 50 KB/s
with no discernable difference. I only do mono as I only use one ear
to listen.
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