[Lexicog] Audio devices suitable for language data collection

[Mike Maxwell]

Norbert Rennert wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I'm looking at purchasing an mp3 recorder which can serve as a field
> language data collection device. ...
 > My questions are:
> - Does anyone have any experience with these players or others and can say
> if the quality of the recording is good enough to do phonetic analysis?
> - I have heard that the mp3 format truncates the higher frequencies. Does
> this affect the sounds produced by human speech?

Have a look at http://www.emeld.org/school/classroom/audio/,
particularly the chart at the bottom.  They recommend against MP3 for
phonetic analysis because of the data loss.  (It's presumably fine if
you're just doing orthographic transcription of a language you know.)

	Mike Maxwell
	Linguistic Data Consortium


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