Help needed

[futurepy]

Hello,

I am making a dictionary for my web site. There is a audio file for
each word entry. Such a file includes reading of the word for entry
and a sample sentence. The file lasts only a few seconds. My
equipment is simple, just my laptop computer, a microphone and some
free software downloaded from the internet.

The steps to create a sound file are: record the file with Windows'
Sound Recorder, save it as a file of 44.100 KHz, 16 Bit. Mono 86/sec.,
then change the file to .wma file with DART CD-Recorder 4, to decrease
the size.

However, the file is still too big. After uploading it to my web
site, it takes long time to get it played. A 4-second-long file can be
as big as 50 kb. Could anyone tell me how to creat the file as small
as possible for my purpose? The sound file does not have to be in
good quality. It is not music. The sound can be as natural as human
speech.

I am willing to purchase software, but don't know which is the best
for my purpose.

Thanks for help.

[Pooh Bear]

futurepy wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am making a dictionary for my web site. There is a audio file for
> each word entry. Such a file includes reading of the word for entry
> and a sample sentence. The file lasts only a few seconds. My
> equipment is simple, just my laptop computer, a microphone and some
> free software downloaded from the internet.
>
> The steps to create a sound file are: record the file with Windows'
> Sound Recorder, save it as a file of 44.100 KHz, 16 Bit. Mono 86/sec.,
> then change the file to .wma file with DART CD-Recorder 4, to decrease
> the size.
>
> However, the file is still too big. After uploading it to my web
> site, it takes long time to get it played. A 4-second-long file can be
> as big as 50 kb. Could anyone tell me how to creat the file as small
> as possible for my purpose? The sound file does not have to be in
> good quality. It is not music. The sound can be as natural as human
> speech.

For speech recording you don't need 44.1kHz sampling. 8kHz is probably
adequate.

You might want to consider conversion from wav to other formats too.


Graham

[Dimitrios Tzortzakakis]

say, to mp3.

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>
> futurepy wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am making a dictionary for my web site. There is a audio file for
> > each word entry. Such a file includes reading of the word for entry
> > and a sample sentence. The file lasts only a few seconds. My
> > equipment is simple, just my laptop computer, a microphone and some
> > free software downloaded from the internet.
> >
> > The steps to create a sound file are: record the file with Windows'
> > Sound Recorder, save it as a file of 44.100 KHz, 16 Bit. Mono 86/sec.,
> > then change the file to .wma file with DART CD-Recorder 4, to decrease
> > the size.
> >
> > However, the file is still too big. After uploading it to my web
> > site, it takes long time to get it played. A 4-second-long file can be
> > as big as 50 kb. Could anyone tell me how to creat the file as small
> > as possible for my purpose? The sound file does not have to be in
> > good quality. It is not music. The sound can be as natural as human
> > speech.
>
> For speech recording you don't need 44.1kHz sampling. 8kHz is probably
> adequate.
>
> You might want to consider conversion from wav to other formats too.
>
>
> Graham
>