Coding of natural audio in MPEG-4
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MPEG-4 standardizes natural audio coding at bit rates ranging from 2 kbit/s, suitable for intelligible speech coding, to 64 kbit/s per channel, suitable for high-quality audio coding. Within this range, three categories of coding are defined: parametric coding, code excited linear predictive coding (CELP) and time/frequency (T/F) coding. The unique contribution of MPEG-4 audio is that not only does it scale across a wide range of bit rates, but it also scales across a broad set of other parameters, such as sampling rate, bandwidth, voice pitch and complexity. This paper presents an overview of the MPEG-4 natural audio coding framework and each of its component coding techniques
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Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on
(Volume:6
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Date of Conference: 12-15 May 1998