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		orbital-decay on Dec 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Disaster.radio: a disaster-resilient communication... That's the supposed maximum cognitive throughput, not the (currently) practical encoding rate.

Johnny555 on Dec 11, 2019 [–]

That's the rate that's important. Human speech is sent and received by humans, if you're going to send computer generated speech faster than that (faster than a human can comprehend) and decode on the other end by computer, why use speech at all?

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