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Podcasts on Floppy Disk
- brudgers 6y agoCould a bespoke audio player could enhance low bitrate audio back to sustained listenability? Seems like the sort of thing machine learning is good at.
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y ago1.4MB of English text (uncompressed) is about 250k words. If you could compress a voice model for speaker small enough, text-to-speech + a transcript might be a good compression method for a podcast.
- rkagerer 6y agoThat's a really intriguing idea. I wonder if you could go a step further and include a teensy amount of model data tailored to the original speaker(s). i.e. Telling the reconstruction algorithm "here's how he speaks" and "here's what he's saying".
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoThat’s what I was thinking.
- romwell 6y ago>Could a bespoke audio player could enhance low bitrate audio back to sustained listenability? Well, that's what compression is, isn't it? I guess you are asking about how good is ML as a compression mechanism. People are thinking[1] about it. [1]https://petewarden.com/2018/10/16/will-compression-be-machine-learnings-killer-app/ https://petewarden.com/2018/10/16/will-compression-be-machin...
- brudgers 6y agoThat's not what I'm getting at. Sorry for not being clear. It's more like using ML to make something up. The something being the details. Like colorizing black and white photographs or writing news articles. It doesn't so much extract information as add it.
- kiwidrew 6y agoIt's possible to squeeze more data on to a 3.5" floppy while still remaining readable in a standard PC floppy drive. Two examples of this are Microsoft's DMF format [1] (with 1680KB capacity) and IBM's XDF format [2] (with 1860KB capacity). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Extended_Density_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Extended_Density_Format