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This might be worth a look: http://avblog.userplane.com/
Encode at a lower bit rate. You encoded it at 128 kbps, which is good for music but unnecessarily high for speech. 40 to 64 kbps is sufficient and would cut the file size down to between 1/3 and 1/2 the size. Also, speech rarely requires greater than 11kHz resolution; if you downsample your original recording from 22kHz to 11kHz before the MP3 encoding, that will cut the original file size in half; encoding that at 40-64 kbps should get your file size down from 15.6 MB to around 3 or 4 MB.
Yeah, or speak less. At reasonably hifi levels, 1 minute = 1 meg.
What is MP3 for the novice?
Many thanks
melissa – Boris Johnson’s office
MP3 is the specification for a mathematical algorithm that can compress CD-quality digital audio in such a way that it requires less storage space while minimizing the effect this can have on the fidelity of the signal.
For basic information about MP3, visit
http://www.mp3-faq.org
For additional technical information about MP3, visit the inventor site:
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/techinf/layer3
MP3 is the specification for a mathematical algorithm that can compress CD-quality digital audio in such a way that it requires less storage space while minimizing the effect this can have on the fidelity of the signal.
For basic information about MP3, visit
http://www.mp3-faq.org
For additional technical information about MP3, visit the inventor site:
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/techinf/layer3
Here’s something I found helpful:
podtips
Forgot to add: I used his tips to cut down an >5megs MP3, to ~ half. Now if I could only figure how to get it into the RSS feed, I’d be ready for my first health podcast :-).