watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson) (10/28/88)
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Could some NeXT users on the net please mail me, or post, about 1 second
of digitized sound, using the voice mail application.
I'm curious to see how big is is and how it is packed, ie...
digital data | uuencoded | mail
or maybe:
digital data | compress | uuencode | mail
Or how about a copy of the "This is Steve Jobs at Davies Symphony Hall
on Oct 12 ..." recording.
Thanks in Advance,
--
John S. Watson, IBM heir in hiding ARPA: watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov
NASA Ames Research Center UUCP: ...!ames!watson
Any opinions expressed herein are, like, solely the responsibility of, like, the
author and do not, like, represent the opinions of NASA or the U.S. Government.jaw@eos.UUCP (James A. Woods) (10/28/88)
> I'm curious to see how big is is and how it is packed, ie... > > digital data | compress | uuencode | mail > this is currently true, according to cognizant personnel over on deer creek road. by now, however, they are acutely aware that bits | compress | btoa | mail is seven percent better, and all manner of time series processing tricks can reduce the bit rate even further. it is a good research problem to see which techniques can be applied in near-realtime. agreed -- an uncompressed five or ten second phoneme test string would be a most welcome posting.
Bernard.Aboba@f445.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bernard Aboba) (10/30/88)
What does the NeXT Voice Mail application do? Does it answer the telephone, accept touch tone input, and branch, like my $200 Big Mouth board does on a PC, or is it something much less functional? I do not think it is appropriate to call something VOICE MAIL unless it actually does what a typical business voice mail system does. Just wondering. -- INTERNET: f444.n204.z1.Fidonet.org UUCP: sun!sunncal!mailcom
watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson) (11/01/88)
In article <277.236CC2D9@mailcom.FIDONET.ORG> Bernard.Aboba@f445.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bernard Aboba) writes: > What does the NeXT Voice Mail application do? Does it answer the > telephone, accept touch tone input, and branch, like my $200 Big Mouth > board does on a PC, or is it something much less functional? I do not > think it is appropriate to call something VOICE MAIL unless it actually > does what a typical business voice mail system does. Just wondering. I don't really know what a typical voice mail system does, we only got our rotary-dial phones replaced by touch tone phones a couple months ago. :-) But, from what I saw at the indrotuction, the "voice mail" application works something like this (the sender and receiver both have NeXT machines): You jabber something into the microphone (assuming you have a microphone connected to your system), and the the voice mail digitizes and bundles up the data into your standard unix/uucp/usenet mail format, and sends the "messages" to whoever you are mailing to on the usenet/arpanet/bitnet. Upon receiving, the voice mail application automatically unbundles the message and plays it to you. Now instead of your boss writting you telling you to get back to work, you can actually hear his voice, in CD quality sound (or whatever quality your input is digitized as). I'm sure the record industry's lawyers are going to love this. Does anyone know how many bytes are in "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"? :-). It also makes me wonder if you can talk in a NeXT machine in your office, transmit across the ethernet, and have it play back in real time, on the NeXT machine down the hall. That's kind of why I want to see a sample of this stuff, to see how big it is going to be, and maybe get a feel for how much load there will be networks. -- John "Myrtle" Watson, IBM heir in hiding ARPA: watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center UUCP: ...!ames!watson Any opinions expressed herein are, like, solely the responsibility of, like, the author and do not, like, represent the opinions of NASA or the U.S. Government.
bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (11/01/88)
In article <17411@ames.arc.nasa.gov> watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson) writes: >I'm sure the record industry's lawyers are going to love this. >Does anyone know how many bytes are in "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts >Club Band"? :-). As a student, I worked with a guy whose life dream it was to digitize all of "In-a-gadda-da-vida" (sp?), by Iron Butterfly. We were playing with some odd devices and regularly hanging our 750's Unibus. He became despondent when just the introduction, at what he considered a reasonable sample rate, filled his RLO2. He couldn't talk the system manager out of an RK07 (he was probably mad about our occasionally wedging the Unibus during production hours), and gave up the project for the time. Now I think he's got a Wren-N on his MacII and may be attacking it again. -=- Zippy sez, --Bob I'm GLAD I remembered to XEROX all my UNDERSHIRTS!!