• Hello Hotel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Another thing to add to that, computer text is amazingly dense. An audio file of me saying just the first word takes up more bytes than this whole comment. Each english ascii charicter is a byte, each non-english char is 1 to 3 4 bytes.

    “another” as wav file

    • msage@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Audio can and usually is compressed quite well. When it’s just human voice, you can be very aggressive with losing specific parts of data.

      Videos however aren’t as simple - unless you go with very short ones, which YouTube doesn’t.