[Tim Little]

On 2011-04-22, RichD wrote:
No, he wasn't. Evidently you don't understand Shannon entropy.

Shannon did quite a lot of work on entropy of music. Which particular
work are you citing with your quote of 40 bits/s?


Then the speech playback decoder generates sound through a model of
the human vocal tract? Very impressive, if true -

A mathematical model, yes. Such models do usually have more free
parameters than any human can achieve, but close enough to allow very
substantial compression ratios.


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Tim