Re: SPI announcement sound files

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

it'll be hard getting your hands on to it....from what I know those sound
files are recorded in 44khz 16 bit stereo WAV format, which means for each
second the file would hog up 176kb of disk real estate.

how many 176kbs can you fit on a 1440 kb disk? not too many. Plus they might
be centrally located, coz i've seen an ISDN modem at Strathfield and was
connected to the DVA console PC.

the best thing is to get a copy of the CD-ROM that has both the DVA Console
software and the soundbytes.


The Railway Rasputin. <bob@fastlink.com.au> wrote in message
385791BD.196DE905@fastlink.com.au">news:385791BD.196DE905@fastlink.com.au...
> I might have a sniff arround.
> If I can find the folder they are located in AND are in a traditional
> wav format, I'll get a coppy of the files.
>
> rgds
>
> Hubert Lam wrote:
> >
> > DVA runs on Windows NT 4.0, so ideally they would be in .wav format or
one
> > that is common amongst the Windows platform--so that the programmer for
the
> > DVA Console doesn't have to waste time writing a CODEC.
> >
> > Geoffrah <geoffrah@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
> > 3856c237.750499591@newshost.anu.edu.au">news:3856c237.750499591@newshost.anu.edu.au...
> > > Just out of curiosity - is it possible to get a hold of some of these
> > > sound files (ie. are they in .wav format ?) .... or are they in a
> > > specialised format that can only be used on the DVA computers ?
> > >
> > > >As mentioned in subject, these have been replaced by never "DVA"
sound
> > files
> > > >last Thursday afternoon, except that the station names all have a
rising
> > > >inflection, not a falling one, which results in a very strange sound
when
> > > >things like "Hornsby via Town Hall" is announced. It is also a lot
slower
> > > >than the old messages, and so most of the time the train would have
> > departed
> > > >halfway throughout the announcement being played.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >