Compiling MPEG 4 structured audio into C

Structured audio (SA) is an MPEG 4 audio standard for algorithmic sound encoding, using the programming language SAOL. The paper describes a SA decoder, sfront, that translates a SAOL program into a C program, which is then compiled and executed to create audio. Performance data shows a 7.6/spl times/ to 20.4/spl times/ speedup compared to the SA reference MPEG decoder.