Reducing voice sound size for email

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Reducing voice sound size for email

Outlook Express

If you read the *Lyrics for: / Brown Eyed Girl / into MS Sound Recorder the default SAVE is PCM 22.050 kHz, 16 Bit, Mono and the sound file will be: 2.61 MB (2,740,646 bytes). Depending on your speech.

However, if you click *Save As .. for the file, (and NOT *Save) you will see Format: and a *Change* button at the bottom. Click this before you type a name to save and change the Format to GSM 6.10 8.000 kHz, Mono and the sound file will be: 98.7 KB (101,070 bytes)

*That's a saving of 2,639,576 bytes.* And the sound quality is good enough for voice. And the size makes it now possible to insert in email. A talking email. "Hi grandma, how are you on your birthday .. etc .."

From Outlook Express > Format > Background > Sound (Browse for wav file and check play 1 time only.)

(You can also change the Format by clicking > File > Properties in Sound Recorder.)

That's a pretty staggering saving, isn't it. Try it. It's not music, but voice quality.

What do you think?

Hey where did we go, days when the rains came

Down in the hollow playin' a new game

Laughin' and a-runnin' hey hey, skippin' and a-jumpin'

In the misty nornin' fog with our hearts a-thumpin' on and you

My brown-eyed girl

You my-----brown-eyed girl

Whatever happened to Tuesday's so slow

Goin' down to the old mine with a transistor radio

Standin' in the sunlight laughin', hidin' behind a rainbow's wall

Slippin' and a-slidin' all along the waterfall with you

My brown-eyed girl

You my-----brown-eyed girl

Do you remember when we used to say

Sha la la la....

Sha la la la

La dee da

So hard to find my way, now that I'm on my own

I saw you just the other day

My how you have grown, cast my mem'ry back there Lord

Sometimes I'm overcome, thinkin' about it

Making love in the green grass, behind the stadium with you

My brown-eyed girl

You my-----brown-eyed girl

Do you remember when we used to sing

Sha la la la....

PS. Incidentally, the line from the song "Making love in the green grass" caused a HUGE controversy in my day, as did The Stones "Let's spend the Night Together". My generation changed the world.

My grandmother used to think saying "Bloody" was the worst thing you could do. And my mother used to think the same about "Bast*rd" which may still have some effect, hence the * in place of "a".

What's in a name?

You need to be taught things are bad to believe them.