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Testing Suzanne Vega's voice

we managed to destroy susan vega's voice let's see if you notice the difference i am sitting in the morning at the diner on the corner i am sitting in the morning at the diner o...

Course: Creativity, design and technologySection: How Suzanne Vega shaped the MP3Subtitles: en

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did

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we managed to destroy susan vega's voice

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let's see if you notice the difference i

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am sitting in the morning at the diner

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on the corner i am sitting in the

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morning at the diner on the corner

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while their algorithm had worked well

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for most instruments there was one sound

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it hadn't solved yet

2:06

the human voice they soon realized if

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they could maintain audio quality on a

2:11

compressed version of susan's warm

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vocals then they could compress any

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music track

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and turn out to

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for the next i think a year or so to be

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a major headache to us

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after some tweaks here and there they

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tuned up their algorithm and the mp3 was

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born

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for us when mp3 exploded and we found it

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was one of the

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most searched for

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