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   XPost: sci.math, sci.electronics.design   
   From: tim@little-possums.net   
      
   On 2011-04-22, RichD  wrote:   
   > No, he wasn't.  Evidently you don't understand Shannon entropy.   
      
   Shannon did quite a lot of work on entropy of music.  Which particular   
   work are you citing with your quote of 40 bits/s?   
      
      
   > Then the speech playback decoder generates sound through a model of   
   > the human vocal tract?  Very impressive, if true -   
      
   A mathematical model, yes.  Such models do usually have more free   
   parameters than any human can achieve, but close enough to allow very   
   substantial compression ratios.   
      
      
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