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Sample Rates and Bit Size

How do we store each sample value (Quantisation)?

8 Bit Value
(0-255)
16 Bit Value
(Integer) (0-65535)




How many Samples to take?

11.025 KHz
-- Speech (Telephone 8KHz)
22.05 KHz
-- Low Grade Audio
(WWW Audio, AM Radio)
44.1 KHz
-- CD Quality


Dave Marshall
10/4/2001