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- From: katalina@shell02.ozemail.com.au (Katalina Technologies)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Voice modem sound quality
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 13:35:13 GMT
- Organization: OzEmail Pty Ltd - Australia
- Message-ID: <4jm1mh$g86@oznet11.ozemail.com.au>
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- innovative technologies (innovative_technologies@actcom.co.il) wrote:
- : katalina@shell01.ozemail.com.au (Katalina Technologies) wrote:
-
- : >I am not all that familiar with TYIN modems, but if they rely
- : >on a serial link to transfer the sound data to the computer,
- : >then they would require a 8000 * 8 = 64000 bits/second data
- : >transfer rate (well, 800000 bits/sec actually)
-
- : Aren't you exagerating?...:-) (eight hundred thousand?).
-
- That was a typo ( look at the calculation above),
- it should have read 80000 bits/sec.
-
- : Nope. It really is a FAST UART implementation. NO DMA to the best of
- : our knowledge (NATSEMI state this clearly). Using a DMA would render
- : it incompatible with serial port drivers in Windows and DOS (and these
- : modems ARE COMPATIBLE with DATACOMM programs such as PROCOMM PLUS for
- : WINDOWS, Windows Terminal, etc.
- : I think that is enough to assume it does so via a serial port.
-
- Sounds like during the recording/playback the COMM driver would need
- to work the port at 115200 bps, and handling 64000 bits/sec
-
- I would still contend that ADPCM based compression shemes deliver
- more then adequate sound quality - at a much lower bit rate.
-
- Kath
- http://www.ozemail.com.au/~katalina
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