SAN FRANCISCO—Last month's article discussed the theory behind high-end audio coding. The second half of this series will define broadcast quality and tandem coding losses, and look at their effect on ...

Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...

In MPEG Layer III coding the compression gain is mainly achieved through the unequal distribution of energy in the different frequency bands, the use of the psychoacoustic model, and Huffman coding.

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