MPEG-4 audio does not require a single or small set of highly efficient compression schemes but rather a complex toolbox to perform a wide range of operations from low-bit-rate speech coding to ...

The MP3 is dead, according to its creators, who say that the digital audio encoding format has lost relevance in a world of new technology. The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, part of ...

MP3, the digital audio coding format, changed the way we listen to music and drove the adoption of countless new devices over the last couple of decades. And now, it’s dead. The developer of the ...

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 ...

Lars Liljeryd woke up one morning in 1996 with a hangover and an idea that would transform the science of digital audio. A Swedish inventor and erstwhile rock drummer, Liljeryd had toyed with ways of ...