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- From: dgc3@ellis.uchicago.edu (milovan djilas)
- Subject: Re: digitizing 30 minutes voice
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.125424.14601@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <wuth.21k4@castrov.cuc.ab.ca> <1992Sep5.035711.13243@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 12:54:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep5.035711.13243@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP) writes:
- >In article <wuth.21k4@castrov.cuc.ab.ca> wuth@castrov.cuc.ab.ca (Brett Wuth) writes:
- >>Hi, I have several cassette tapes of interviews with family relatives
- >>before they died. Because I want these recordings to be available for
- >>the generations to come, I would like to avoid degradation in quality
- >>by digitizing them. I would like to get your recommendations on how
- >>to do this.
- >>
- >>Can you recommend, either public-domain or commercial:
- >> * digitizing hardware to use
- >> * digitizing software
- >> * play-back software
- >>I would like to be able to digitize an entire side (30 min) in one
- >>operation. Will this require recording straight to disk, or is
- >>my 7Meg of RAM sufficient?
- >
- >As far as I know, only Perfect Sound and AD1012 can record onto hard
- >drive directly. (30 mins about 100+ meg)
-
- AudioMaster can record to disk, as well. It uses (any?) 8-bit
- sampler. There are at least three PD, mono 8-bit sampler schematics
- floating around, if you're handy with a soldering iron. Any
- commercial product should work fine, as well (perhaps requiring the
- commercial software to run it). A PD program called AGMSRecordSound
- can also drive the sampler. For playback, I prefer OmniPlay,
- personally :-)
-
- 8000 Hz should be fine for recording voice, since the vocal range
- rarely exceeds 4000 Hz. At this rate, you could record 15 minutes in
- 7 MB of free RAM. If you run nothing but an OS and the sampling
- software (thereby having almost 7 MB of *free* RAM), you should be
- able to get one side of the tape in two sweeps. Otherwise, you might
- be better off sampling to disk. I'm not sure whether AGMS records to
- disk or not, but I'm sure someone here ( :-) could answer that.
-
- (That assumes, of course, that you're not loading KS2.0 into half of
- one of those megs. You can determine the number of minutes that can
- be recorded to N bytes of free RAM at R Hz (samples per second) as
- follows:
-
- minutes = N/ (60*R)
-
- Use 'avail' to find out the value of N at the moment you're prepared
- to record.)
-
- Also, be aware that not all software makes intelligent use of free
- RAM. Old Perfect Sound software halves the amount of free RAM
- available for recording because it requires a copy buffer as large as
- what could be sampled. Not sure about newer PSounds.
-
- The sampling rate could conceivably be lower; you can use Richard
- Horne's 'Spectrogram' program to find the highest frequency in any one
- disk file; by multiplying this highest frequency by two, you get the
- minumum sampling rate you should use to preserve dynamic range. If
- everyone in your family has a low voice, you could get some extra
- minutes :-) ...
-
- Hope this helps.
- --dgc
-
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