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> a series of 8kHz audio recordings (ie. crappy phone quality samples)

I worked in speech recognition for a bit and 8kHz was the standard audio rate for recordings. No one saw this as an impediment; and it really isn't. 8kHz is able to capture up to 4kHz frequencies and the fundamental frequencies of speech are MUCH lower than 4kHz.



At 8 kHz sampling rate, you can tell f from s only by context (they sound the same).




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