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 ...

If you view video on your computer or listen to music you downloaded from the Internet, you probably use MPEG technology. In contrast to data files, audio and video files tend to be very large and ...

The goal of digital compression algorithms is to produce a digital representation of an audio signal which, when decoded and reproduced, sounds the same as the original signal, while using a minimum ...

The name MP3 is an abbreviation of the term "MPEG-1 layer-3." MPEG is an acronym that stands for the Moving Pictures Experts Group, a working group formed under the joint direction of the ...