3.1034 audio input; Mac troubles (95)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Mon, 12 Feb 90 21:34:42 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1034. Monday, 12 Feb 1990.
(1) Date: Fri, 09 Feb 90 21:56:48 CST (15 lines)
From: ENCOPE@LSUVM
Subject: SOUND INPUT
(2) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 10:00:00 EST (19 lines)
From: EIEB360@UTXVM
Subject: Audio input
(3) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 90 15:30:00 EST (16 lines)
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: 3.1029 Mac questions & answers (119)
(4) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 10:43:32 GMT (15 lines)
From: Donald Spaeth 041 339-8855 x6336 <GKHA13@CMS.GLASGOW.AC.UK>
Subject: Macs to Hungary
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Date: Fri, 09 Feb 90 21:56:48 CST
From: ENCOPE@LSUVM
Subject: SOUND INPUT
One HUMANIST grammoteer wonders whether there is a system that can
transfer tape recordings into a computer. This grammotist is doing
field recordings (would he like to record me? I'm becoming oral history
here in my department). Why, I ask, would one bother with the
intermediate step, the tape recordings? Radio Shack/Tandy has direct
input digitizing microphones and boards on their PCs. Surely the board
that runs this application could be plugged into a portable computer--e.
g., a laptop--and taken directly to the recording site. I've seen a
whole music system, including voice input, output, and digitizing, on a
card small enough for my little Toshiba. Could someone supply exact
instructions for Mr. Trotter? -- KLC.
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 10:00:00 EST
From: EIEB360@UTXVM
Subject: Audi input
Re: Robert Trotter's request for information on storing audio
information. There are two problems: first, storing digitzed audio
simply EATS disk space: a 2-minute blurb recorded with the Farallon
MacRecorder took hundreds of Kbytes of disk space; I can't even imagine
how much disk you'd need to store all those hours o taped interviews!
Many CD-ROMs, I'd guess. That's one problem; the other would be how to
index it all (assuming you had the storage problem licked) so you could
retrieve only the portions you wanted. I'm no expert on this stuff, but
it strikes me someone might have to lick the continuous speech
recognition problem first, in order to have intelligible indexing of
recorded speech. You might take a look at Raymond Kurzweil's article on
speech recognition technology in BYTE a couple or three issues back (I'm
not sure of the date, but it wsa in the last quarter of 89 sometime!
sorry I can't be more precise). Kurzweil's working hard on this
stuff John Slatin
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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 90 15:30:00 EST
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: 3.1029 Mac questions & answers (119)
Wait a bit on the IIcx with 80megdrive. Crabs in MACWEEK wrote a
steaming colum n in which he reports a 90-100% failure of the drives in
one two weeks or a bit later! He advises against the thing enteirely.
U of Chicago manager and column ist and Mac fanatic though he is. An
associate of mine would never buy the inte rnal mac drives. He buys
only reliable external drives. My Mac II crashed the f irst week:
motherboard no good. Two weeks later the 40 meg drive went with eery
thg on it, all my applications. Never had a momebent trouble before
with super mac external drive. Crabs article was published a week asgo!
Trouble here, not on the horizon. NO matter what Mac says! And I am a
Mac fellow from 1984 on. Do pay attention to that IIcx problem. Do not
believe the vendor!
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 10:43:32 GMT
From: Donald Spaeth 041 339-8855 x6336 <GKHA13@CMS.GLASGOW.AC.UK>
Subject: Macs to Hungary
Exporting a Mac to Hungary is more likely to be a political
problem than an electrical problem. As far as I know, it is still
an offense to export U.S. computer technology to certain eastern
countries, and I doubt that the law has kept up with the pace of
political change! Whether (1) Hungary was included, or (2)
export for personal use is included in the legislation I do not
know. But Apple licence agreements (e.g. for HyperCard) include
a clause forbidding unauthorised export to certain countries.
Donald Spaeth
University of Glasgow