Posted by seani on 01/25/06 13:28

martin.mrazek@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to put a series of lectures on the Internet, thus I'm trying to
> find optimal balance in trade-off between size and quality. A good
> result is obtained by
>
> lame --abr 60 -m m file.wav file.mp3
>
> but it is still too lengthy and the decrease of ABR to 30 means too
> substantial deterioration of quality. So questions are: (1) is the ABR
> technology the best option as regards this purpose? (2) Wouldn't be
> other format than MP3 less capacity intensive? (ogg, wmf...) or are
> there any advices when working with speech rather than music?
>
> thanks
> Martin
>
Try www.dbpoweramp.com, go to "Code Central" and scroll down to the
speech-optimized codecs. Should keep you going for a bit.

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