[Icc-avr] Off topic question

[Richard Man]

Ha ha, you do know that I play Taiko right? :-) Email me off-list.


At 11:21 AM 7/12/2008, John Baraclough wrote:
>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.
>

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