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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by darkstar999 on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @12:04PM (#13264300)
96kbps is pretty high for voice. You could get away with 48 or less.
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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by funkyy on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @01:25PM (#13264890)
64kbps would be sufficient to hear back noise and whisper, so that would make more sense.
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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by lozf on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @01:46PM (#13265076)
Way less with modern speech codecs. Even Opus at 32kbps would be overkill for the required quality.
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Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case by throwaway7767 on Friday December 30, 2016 @07:16AM (#13284004)
Opus is quite usable for speech data down to 8kbit/s, even 6kbit/s is mostly understandable. At 10-12kbit/s you have good quality voice recordings.
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