Re: Enhancing madplay to speed up audio books and podcasts

On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Bill Cox wrote:

> I would like to enhance an audio book player called "daisy-player" to
> allow the user to control the speed.  It uses madplay for all of it's
> sound output.  I wrote a simple package called "sonic" that speeds up
> speech with low distortion.  It's in plain ANSI C, and works well on
> ARM CPUs with no FPU (tested on Android).
> 
> Since sonic is not yet included in Debian, I recommend just adding two
> files to the madplay source: sonic.c and sonic.h.  I would be happy to
> make the initial edits to incorporate sonic speed up in the output
> stream processing of madplay.  Would such an enhancement be of
> interest?

How does sonic compare to libsoundtouch which is already in Debian and 
other distributions?

http://www.surina.net/soundtouch/


Nicolas