Re: SPI announcement sound files

["The Railway Rasputin." <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

Who said I'll be using a 3.5 floppy?
The CD does sound like a better idea than a zip drive.
I know some one in the section that does this DVA biz.
I'll see what he says.Hey he might even give me a lend of a computer!

rgds

Hubert Lam wrote:
> 
> 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As mentioned in subject, these have been replaced by never "DVA"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.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >