Fact · Speech recognition
960000samples per minute
A recording at 16,000 samples per second contains 960,000 samples for each minute of audio.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
- What it measures
- Dictation and large-vocabulary recognition principally use a sampling rate of at least 16 kHz.
- How it is calculated
- 16,000 samples per second x 60 seconds = 960,000 samples
- What it does not show
- Counts raw samples before any compression. Each sample is then stored as a number, so the file size depends on the bit depth.