Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (02/13/90)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1034. Monday, 12 Feb 1990. (1) Date: Fri, 09 Feb 90 21:56:48 CST (15 lines) From: ENCOPE@LSUVM Subject: SOUND INPUT (2) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 10:00:00 EST (19 lines) From: EIEB360@UTXVM Subject: Audio input (3) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 90 15:30:00 EST (16 lines) From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@OAC.UCLA.EDU> Subject: Re: 3.1029 Mac questions & answers (119) (4) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 10:43:32 GMT (15 lines) From: Donald Spaeth 041 339-8855 x6336 <GKHA13@CMS.GLASGOW.AC.UK> Subject: Macs to Hungary (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 90 21:56:48 CST From: ENCOPE@LSUVM Subject: SOUND INPUT One HUMANIST grammoteer wonders whether there is a system that can transfer tape recordings into a computer. This grammotist is doing field recordings (would he like to record me? I'm becoming oral history here in my department). Why, I ask, would one bother with the intermediate step, the tape recordings? Radio Shack/Tandy has direct input digitizing microphones and boards on their PCs. Surely the board that runs this application could be plugged into a portable computer--e. g., a laptop--and taken directly to the recording site. I've seen a whole music system, including voice input, output, and digitizing, on a card small enough for my little Toshiba. Could someone supply exact instructions for Mr. Trotter? -- KLC. (2) --------------------------------------------------------------29---- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 10:00:00 EST From: EIEB360@UTXVM Subject: Audi input Re: Robert Trotter's request for information on storing audio information. There are two problems: first, storing digitzed audio simply EATS disk space: a 2-minute blurb recorded with the Farallon MacRecorder took hundreds of Kbytes of disk space; I can't even imagine how much disk you'd need to store all those hours o taped interviews! Many CD-ROMs, I'd guess. That's one problem; the other would be how to index it all (assuming you had the storage problem licked) so you could retrieve only the portions you wanted. I'm no expert on this stuff, but it strikes me someone might have to lick the continuous speech recognition problem first, in order to have intelligible indexing of recorded speech. You might take a look at Raymond Kurzweil's article on speech recognition technology in BYTE a couple or three issues back (I'm not sure of the date, but it wsa in the last quarter of 89 sometime! sorry I can't be more precise). Kurzweil's working hard on this stuff John Slatin (3) --------------------------------------------------------------20---- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 90 15:30:00 EST From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@OAC.UCLA.EDU> Subject: Re: 3.1029 Mac questions & answers (119) Wait a bit on the IIcx with 80megdrive. Crabs in MACWEEK wrote a steaming colum n in which he reports a 90-100% failure of the drives in one two weeks or a bit later! He advises against the thing enteirely. U of Chicago manager and column ist and Mac fanatic though he is. An associate of mine would never buy the inte rnal mac drives. He buys only reliable external drives. My Mac II crashed the f irst week: motherboard no good. Two weeks later the 40 meg drive went with eery thg on it, all my applications. Never had a momebent trouble before with super mac external drive. Crabs article was published a week asgo! Trouble here, not on the horizon. NO matter what Mac says! And I am a Mac fellow from 1984 on. Do pay attention to that IIcx problem. Do not believe the vendor! (4) --------------------------------------------------------------28---- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 10:43:32 GMT From: Donald Spaeth 041 339-8855 x6336 <GKHA13@CMS.GLASGOW.AC.UK> Subject: Macs to Hungary Exporting a Mac to Hungary is more likely to be a political problem than an electrical problem. As far as I know, it is still an offense to export U.S. computer technology to certain eastern countries, and I doubt that the law has kept up with the pace of political change! Whether (1) Hungary was included, or (2) export for personal use is included in the legislation I do not know. But Apple licence agreements (e.g. for HyperCard) include a clause forbidding unauthorised export to certain countries. Donald Spaeth University of Glasgow