Talk:Audio compression

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yes, it should ---

This page has nothing to do with speech compression.

There are two meanings to "audio compression", one of them level or loudness compression, i.e. dynamic range reduction, and the other bit rate reduction.

Speech compression is mostly different, in that audio compression uses sophisticated perceptual coding methods, and speech compression uses mostly least-mean-squares compression methods, which work well for speech because of the very limited gamut (mathematically speaking) involved in the spoken voice. Suggesting a merge is wrong on multiple counts, and would, frankly, constitute such a level of misinformation as to constitute vandalism in my opinion. Woodinville (talk) 06:50, 9 February 2008 (UTC)