Subject: Re: digital recording media From: "Antonio S. Pena" <apena(at)TSC.UVIGO.ES> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:34:51 +0100--------------5EEE3102EB3F41957FD3C2AD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > hi all and you Sheila As Robert Eiichi has already commented MiniDisc is a perceptually-based lossy compression device so depending on the aim of your work it will be appropriate or not. If you just want to keep the intelligibility and a high quality recording of speech, that's ok, it keeps precise prosodic features. But if your aim is to process this signal to extract another features in a signal processing scenario I would recommend a DAT device to avoid any loss of information (objective). hope it helps Antonio -- Antonio S. Pena E.T.S.E.Telecomunicacion Universidade de Vigo 36200 - VIGO ( Spain ) Phone: +34-986-812-130 FAX: +34-986-812-116 E-mail: apena(at)tsc.uvigo.es --------------5EEE3102EB3F41957FD3C2AD Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> </BLOCKQUOTE> hi all and you Sheila <P> As Robert Eiichi has already commented MiniDisc is a perceptually-based lossy compression device so depending on the aim of your work it will be appropriate or not. If you just want to keep the intelligibility and a high quality recording of speech, that's ok, it keeps precise prosodic features. But if your aim is to process this signal to extract another features in a signal processing scenario I would recommend a DAT device to avoid any loss of information (objective). <P> hope it helps <P> Antonio <PRE></PRE> <PRE>-- Antonio S. Pena E.T.S.E.Telecomunicacion Universidade de Vigo 36200 - VIGO ( Spain ) Phone: +34-986-812-130 FAX: +34-986-812-116 E-mail: apena(at)tsc.uvigo.es</PRE> </HTML> --------------5EEE3102EB3F41957FD3C2AD-- Email to AUDITORY should now be sent to AUDITORY(at)lists.mcgill.ca LISTSERV commands should be sent to listserv(at)lists.mcgill.ca Information is available on the WEB at http://www.mcgill.ca/cc/listserv