[maemo-developers] Efficient storage and playback of speech

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi Alberto,

Alberto Mardegan wrote:
>   I need to install on the device a few (I guess around 10-20) audio
> files with some seconds of speech each (it's for GPS navigation).
> What file format do you suggest to use, considering that one requirement
> is that the audio is played almost immediately (the lag should be under
> 1 second) when I request it to?

Ogg Speex is a very good codec for low-latency, bow bit-rate human
speech coding (things like VoIP & fast decoding of short speech extracts
would count).

Cheers,
Dave.

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