On 2/11/07, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, The problem is that existing academic software like "praat" use .wav files. I do sympathise up to a point that storage is used. However, the price of a terabyte of storage is such that this is not that relevant. Both an .ogg and a .wav file would be saved. The first is to enable science to do its thing, the second is for our punters.
I'm quite confidence that anyone using praat can type "flac -d *.ogg" to decode all their files before starting pratt the first time.
In any case, praat should be enhanced to work with Ogg/Flac files. A frequent problem with wavs in this application space is they have no metadata. Ogg/Flac and Flac would be good independent of the advantages of compression. I'm looking at the source right now, and it appears that it would only need a few minor changes to get in basic flac support.