[comp.compression] Audio compression

rkl@cbnewsh.att.com (kevin.laux) (03/26/91)

	I have lots of audio files that were digitized with the ADPCM4E
algorithm.  Is there any method of compressing these files any further?
The data appears to be quite random so that running Huffman encoding or
LZW algorithms on the files generates even larger files (not surprizing
since there is almost no reduncancy).  Lossy would be ok as long as not
too much degradation of audio quality occurs.  The audio was 8 bit samples
at 18,900 hz with a cutoff frequency of about 7.5 khz and a Nyquist
frequency of about 8 khz.

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