For voice, try the AMR format. You can get reasonable quality speech
at between 4 and 12 kilobits per second. So in 45MB you could store as
much as 3 hours of audio. Android 1.5 can record in AMR-NB format and
play back in either AMR-NB or AMR-WB.

For more information see:
  http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=1133
  http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMR-NB

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On May 31, 9:47 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Freshman wrote:
> > yes , i need 45MB of audio files.
>
> Perhaps not.
>
> > I am trying to make a kind of english to thai dictionary.
>
> Great!
>
> > and i have a list view which displays some words and sentences.
>
> Great!
>
> > i need to play audio of that words and sentences.
>
> Great!
>
> > i want to play that files in .wav formate.
>
> Ummmm...
>
> 1. Experiment with MP3 or Ogg Vorbis, to see if you can get your audio
> clips to be much smaller, while still retaining acceptable quality. I
> suspect either of those formats will work much better than .WAV.
>
> 2. Give the users options of downloading the whole set of audio clips at
> once (to their SD card) or downloading them on the fly as needed
> (requires Internet connection).
>
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