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Subject: Re: an idea/suggestion
From: Björn Stenberg (bjorn_at_haxx.se)
Date: 2003-09-21


Glenn Ervin at home wrote:
> If synthetic speech is using up the 2 Mb ram, it may need more memory for
> processing the MP3s.
> I do not understand which data is loaded where yet, so I know that this
> might be wrong.

You are missing the real problem: We can only play mp3 data. Even if we could synthesize speech, we need to mp3-encode it before it can be heard.

The 12MHz cpu is much too slow to mp3-encode in real time.

-- 
Björn



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