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Re: [ox-en] Sound recordings from the conference



Hello,

Stefan Merten wrote:

Hi lists!

A few minutes ago I started to upload about 323MB
of MP3's containing
the sound recordings of 12 events being part of
the conference. These
are the ones recorded on my laptop. Because my
laptop most of the time
was in the "English room" most of the English
presentations are
recorded with it.

I started to listen to Bauwens's presentation on
peer-to-peer.  Hearing recordings is a nice change
from only reading text.  And the availability of
English-language presentations is good too, since
there are so few Oekonux texts in English.

If you want, I'd like to volunteer to type up
transcripts of some of the English-language
presentations for inclusion in the documentation
section (and possibly on the "texts" section of the
Oekonux site) - this would be useful for people with
low bandwidth who don't want to download the whole
audio file.
  
There are 7 more recordings I have on my disk from
StefanMz' laptop.
I'm going to post-process during the next week /
months. An 8th
recording from StefanMz seemingly failed (Alan
Toner and Jamie King)
:-( .

There are up to 7 more recordings on the laptop of
Thomas Kalka.
Unfortunately he did not release them to me until
now. Actually I got
no response from him on several inquiries. I
offered various sorts of
help including visiting him to transfer the
material by a local
network connection. He left the project some time
ago. However, I
can't believe that this is a reason to do such a
damage to the world.
Anyway. If you have any contact to Thomas (see
`Cc:'), please ask him
for the recordings. It's only the bare files which
are needed - no
work.

The qualities of the recording varies very much.
For some
presentations the original quality was rather good
while for others it
was worse. I filtered out buzzes, amplified some
material and expanded
the dynamic of some recordings (and post-corrected
a hardware problem
in the analog part of my laptop with a
self-written program...). I
think all of the material is at least
understandable and most is quite
good to listen to. However, if anyone knows of a
good noise filter
(running on GNU/Linux of course) I'd be happy.

For now I used a special voice compression to
48kbps-MP3. May be I'll
re-encode it to OggVorbis some time for religious
as well as for space
reasons but IMHO at the moment this would prevent
very much people
from using the files.

There's also a format in the Ogg project called
Speex that is designed for compressing spoken speech
(though I don't know to what degree it's supported
on players) - see
http://www.speex.org/

Is there enough webspace to host files in more than
one format?

Ahm, I should mention the page where all files are
linked ;-) :


http://zweite.oekonux-konferenz.de/dokumentation/audio.html

for the German site or


http://second.oekonux-konferenz.org/documentation/audio.html

for the English site. Please note the
sub-domaining in the URLs. The
plan is that each conference gets its own fixed
place in the web by an
own sub-domain while the "current" conference is
available by "www".

It might be useful to add the file sizes (since some
of the files are quite large), language, and
presenters' names to the page.

As I said I just started the transfer to the web
site. It'll take
several hours until all the material is there.


                                       	Mit Freien
Grüßen

                                       	Stefan

Joel Schlosberg

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