[linux-audio-user] Re: Speeding up Speech

[Phillip Blevins]

I was able to get a Onkyo Dual Cassette Deck (TA-RW244), which dubs at
two speed. I can  then dub and recorded at 88200 hz and then change
the sample rate to 44100. It worked wonderfully. However I don't use
this feature because the cassette deck is also able to play both side
of a cassette on one deck and the start the other one. This gives me
two hours of continuous recording. If I use the dubbing feature I have
to put a dummy cassette in the recording deck which limits me to using
one cassette deck at a time. However, a high quality cassette deck
DOES make a world of difference in the sound. No cassette hiss and
such. Using Dolby C Noise Reduction and an external USB sound card,
and Gnome Wave Cleaner gives me Very good sound.


On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:21:13 +0200, Juhana Sadeharju <kouhia at nic.funet.fi> wrote:
> 
> I'm sure the 96 kHz converters have not been designed for
> this kind of application. Only choise is to record with
> the normal speed.
> 
> It could be more realistic to buy multiple cassette players.
> That would reduce the digitization time easily. You would
> not need quality players if you have only speech on the
> tapes. The neat thing is that multiple players would reduce
> your idle time as you would need to change the cassettes
> all the time.
> 
> If there would be simple robots available, one could
> leave the cassette changing to the robot.
> 
> Juhana
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