> > > Finally, does anyone know of similar studies that have > > > already been > > > performed, either academic or not? > > > > Is this a serious question? The amount of research devoted to the subject > > of audio compression (both lossless and lossy) and related psychoacoustics > > totals in the millions of pages by now, I should guess. I'm not sure where > > you want to consider such research to have started, but there are large > > clusters of psychoacoustic studies from early last century (e.g. > > Fletcher-Munson in the 1930's) on, > > Earlier than this. The first papers I have are from the 20's.
Hmmm, I guess I wasn't clear that I was asking in terms of my original stated project. I'm not about to believe that the effects of MP3 and Ogg Vorbis on human speech sounds have been studied since the 20's ::-) And the goal isn't to examine the theory, but the actuality. If I use oggenc on a speech sample today, does it loose any critical (from an acoustic phonetic perspective) information? While I'm sure the general theory of lossy audio compression is very interesting, I have neither time, knowledge, nor inclination to approach the question this generally. My choice of 'lossy audio compression' was an atempt at inclusive language, not generality ::-) Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
