[Icc-avr] Off topic question

[Johannes Assenbaum]

Hi John,

download and install winamp and just play your sound files using the Nullsoft Disk Writer plug-in as output, which can be configured to write out any common PCM format down to 8kHz/8bit/mono.

Best regards,
Johannes


> Sorry about being a little off topic, but the list has been very quiet
> recently and I thought this would be the most likely place to get a
> sensible answer to my problem.

> I am building a unique metronome to use when practising Taiko drumming.
> It has red & green LEDs which indicate the hands and the brightness of
> the LEDs will indicate the strength of the beats. Everything so far is
> easy, but I want to add a 'voice' to it, and I think that PCM sampled at
> 8kHz and 8-bits will be perfectly adequate for my purpose. I will be
> using a MAX522 SPI DAC as I already have these parts from another project.

> So here's the question. How do I record speech at 8-bit resolution using
> a PC? I have the Audacity audio editing package and it will record at
> 8kHz sampling but only at a minimum of 16-bit resolution. Can anyone
> give me a link some software which can reduce a 16-bit WAV file to only
> 8-bits so that I can extract the data and programme an external EEPROM.

> Thanks for reading.

> All the best for now,
> John

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