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We really need some kind of highly compressible alternative format for podcasts. Representing speech with a very limited set of code points. It might be a bit l
by mhd 7y ago
We really need some kind of highly compressible alternative format for podcasts. Representing speech with a very limited set of code points. It might be a bit lossy, so you could lose the tone of the voice and other speech characteristics, but there could be some ways to still represent that by carefully picking the words you utter in the podcast.
Of course I'm only spitballing here, this would require some pretty advanced research to be made.
- CharlesW 7y ago> We really need some kind of highly compressible alternative format for podcasts. WebVTT, reproduced at the listener side by TTS? At some point, there's a quality chasm that can only be leaped by using a format other than sampled audio. My question for you is: Why do we need that?
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- badamp 7y agoUh.. isn’t that pretty much what things like lpcnet and wavenet and codec2 are (discussed here) doing? These are codecs that are speech specific. I don’t understand what unique idea you are trying to “spitball” here. Lots of advanced research has been done in this area. These are the results as of now. Things will hopefully continue to improve.
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- teilo 7y agoIf that is all you are after, then the most efficient codec of all is compressed text, and the player a text-to-speech engine.
- yoz-y 7y ago> We really need some kind of highly compressible alternative format for podcasts. Do we though? In the current state of technology podcasts can be quite long and still consume less bandwidth than a HD movie trailer.
- la_barba 7y agoMight be easier to create 'players' for various peoples' synthesized voices, and just compress and stream the text.
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