Low latency audio coder design for high quality audio service on server-client environment

Abstract

Low latency audio coding attracts increasing attention among high quality communication applications such as video conferencing system and server-client media applications such as cloud computing based interactive A/V service. This paper presents a low latency audio coding scheme which can achieve both low delay and high subjective audio quality at the same time. In order to guarantee low delay, the proposed coding system incorporates low overlap window while preserving the window size as same as that of conventional (AAC) long window. The supplementary signal processing tool is incorporated to enhance the audio quality. The proposed coding scheme achieves the delay of 24ms in 48 kHz and the MUSHRA score which is comparable to that of commercialized AAC. © 2013 Acoustical Society of America.