Subjective evaluation of state-of-the-art two-channel audio codecs

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 164-174

  Soulodre, Gilbert A ^a   Grusec, Theodore ^a   Lavoie, Michel ^a   Thibault, Louis ^a  

^a Radio Science Branch   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPACT DISKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SIGNAL ENCODING; STANDARDS;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (MPEG) STANDARDS; TWO CHANNEL AUDIO CODECS;

CODE CONVERTERS;

EID: 0032024118     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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