On 2/10/07, jkelly(a)fas.harvard.edu <jkelly(a)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.