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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This column is devoted to the basics of audio compression, a powerful signal-processing technique ...

Lossless data compression of digital audio signals is useful when it is necessary to minimize the storage space or transmission bandwidth of audio data while still maintaining archival quality.

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 previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to the ...

Data Compression is one of the most important components of this world, driven by petabytes of data daily. We, as humans, are generating data every second. From walking to running, eating to drinking, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a previous article, we discussed analog audio SNR concepts. As mentioned, the dynamic range is ...

Those who started in our field fewer than ten years ago probably don’t remember a time when there wasn’t a streamed version of your radio station available online. When streaming media first became of ...

Audio processing stands as a cornerstone of modern engineering and multimedia applications, bridging the transition from analogue methods to sophisticated digital techniques. Advances in digital ...

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