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Re: Traditional Catholic Audio
« Reply #25 on: Yesterday at 09:13:15 AM »
There will be a radio station soon to stream traditional Catholic audio, which can include these.

Offline St Giles

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Re: Traditional Catholic Audio
« Reply #26 on: Yesterday at 10:02:20 AM »
Once you teach AI the correct way to say things, does it remember for future books?


I also think it would be a good idea to make one or two fast versions of each book using a very high quality means of doing that, since the devices people use may not have fast playback capability, or can't play back fast without significant deterioration in quality. It's a balance between CPU specs, playback quality, and recording quality, also considering the final bitrate you need to keep the quality good without being too big of a file size. There's a trick to it since I've heard some really good 64kbps mp3's at normal speed, and some comparatively bad 128kbps mp3's. Some programs can do batch editing, so you can select a whole collection of files to edit or convert.

Some experimenting may be needed to find ideal speeds that will be practical.


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Re: Traditional Catholic Audio
« Reply #27 on: Yesterday at 10:08:24 AM »
Once you teach AI the correct way to say things, does it remember for future books?


I also think it would be a good idea to make one or two fast versions of each book using a very high quality means of doing that, since the devices people use may not have fast playback capability, or can't play back fast without significant deterioration in quality. It's a balance between CPU specs, playback quality, and recording quality, also considering the final bitrate you need to keep the quality good without being too big of a file size. There's a trick to it since I've heard some really good 64kbps mp3's at normal speed, and some comparatively bad 128kbps mp3's. Some programs can do batch editing, so you can select a whole collection of files to edit or convert.

Some experimenting may be needed to find ideal speeds that will be practical.

Yes, you can populate corrections into a "dictionary" or dictionaries.

I thought about the "fast" version, which I tend to use mostly when there are certain speakers who are slow-talkers, where I have to run it a 2x in order not to be frustrated at how slow they're talking.

I didn't do the fast simply because, well ... I do think most devices have that.

I have had some thoughts of creating a CathAudible mobile app so they can listen on their phones, but that would be down the road.

First things first ... just to get some materials published.

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Re: Traditional Catholic Audio
« Reply #28 on: Yesterday at 10:12:01 AM »
There will be a radio station soon to stream traditional Catholic audio, which can include these.

Who's doing that?  Sounds like an interesting initiative.  Would that be a streaming radio station or a physical antenna broadcasting type?

I actually was an assistant to Father Jenkins and Julius Smetona when they were doing What Catholics Believe on BET TV, but they did record the broadcast at some local TV studio.

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Re: Traditional Catholic Audio
« Reply #29 on: Yesterday at 09:01:04 PM »
Yes, you can populate corrections into a "dictionary" or dictionaries.

I thought about the "fast" version, which I tend to use mostly when there are certain speakers who are slow-talkers, where I have to run it a 2x in order not to be frustrated at how slow they're talking.

I didn't do the fast simply because, well ... I do think most devices have that.

I have had some thoughts of creating a CathAudible mobile app so they can listen on their phones, but that would be down the road.

First things first ... just to get some materials published.
I have an mp3 player with a fast option, but it sounds horrible. I think it has to do with processor speed and sample rate and how it stitches sped up parts together. It's really best done before playback. with a 1.5x option, those with speed adjustable playback could then speed it up further between 1.875-3x.
But, yeah, first thing's first.