On 2/10/07, jkelly@fas.harvard.edu jkelly@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
Gerard, Can you clarify why .wav format is more scientific that .ogg format?
I'd assume that his concern is due to Vorbis being lossy.
Considering that for a very very long time, the gold standard for much speech related research has been 8 or 16khz ulaw compressed audio, I seriously doubt Vorbis is going to impeded much research.. but, I certainly do see why we wouldn't want to just throw information away.
Oh.. *sigh* I wish we had a better way of having linked 'source' and 'distribution' forms in commons. For 99.999% of our applications, the lossily compressed file is really what we want to distribute.