[ILUG] Audio on website

[Gareth Eason]

	If it's spoken voice, use a dictaphone? Quality will be more than good 
enough.

	I would recommend MP3 (or Ogg) due to far greater support than Real 
Audio - and much greater convenience (people can download them and 
listen to them in their cars / on their iRiver/iPod/whatever, later)

	Audacity on Linux is a winner for what you want. And includes filters 
to clean stuff up, dehiss, etc.

	You should probably use Mono, 22,050Hz, 16-bit input to an encoding 
process, and let the MP3/Ogg codec remove the extra information in a 
psycho-acoustic fashion, rather than trying to encode an 8-bit, mono, 
22,050Hz stream - but your mileage may vary.

	Shameless plug: I'm giving a talk on "Linux and Pro Audio" in the 
University of Limerick on 12th Nov. Mail talks at skynet.ie for more 
information. All very welcome.

	Best regards,
	-->Gar

P.S. Given that it's for a charity and that audio is a subject near and 
dear to my heart, mail me privately if there's anthing else I can do to 
help.



Kevin Philp wrote:
> I am doing some web design work for a charity... so keeping costs down is a 
> top priority! The website needs to include some short spoken audio clips that 
> I will need to acquire while out and about...ie no computer available. What I 
> would like to know is:
> 
> 1. What is the cheapest way of acquiring reasonable quality spoken audio clips 
> that I can then feed into my Linux workstation?
> 
> 2. Any recommendations on software to use to cut the clips up and export them 
> into a format I can use on the web?
> 
> 3. Any recommendations on what audio format to use? Someone has already said 
> Real audio due to the availability of crossplatform plugins and high 
> compresson.... but this is new territory for me.
> 
> Kevin.