A similar question was raised earlier this year on this list, and Alex D'arcy's iPhone app was mentioned:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id474079009
You might also like to try Audacity for audio file creation (works on Windows, Mac and Linux):
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
As for MP3 quality, you may be particularly interested in other 'lossless' codecs. More info here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_codecs
I am no phonetician though, so all this may be hilariously wide of the mark.
Good luck with your work.
Dave
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On 30/07/2013 02:00, VAR-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Subject:
> Questions about Digital Audio Formats
> From:
> James Walker <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:
> 29/07/2013 11:10
>
>
> I have a few questions about digitizing or converting older media into newer
> formats, as well as the suitability of certain formats for doing acoustic
> analysis.
>
> 1. I've been using SoundStudio for Mac for most of my audio file creation and
> editing, but is there a better application to use, and is there a good one for
> PC?
>
> 2. I want to re-transfer some of my older recordings that were done with
> minidisks. Since there used to be a proprietary issue about transferring data
> from minidisks to other audio file formats, in the past I had to do real-time
> transfer with an analog cable, but is that still the case?
>
> 3. For the purposes of doing vowel measurements, I know that MP3 is supposed to
> be bad because of its rate of compression, but how serious is this issue? Does
> it significantly distort F1/F2 values? And are WAV or AIFF files converted from
> MP3 usable?
>
> Thanks!
>
> James
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