DSPs court the consumer.

A new breed of consumer product draws on advanced audio compression and decompression schemes made practical by digital signal processors. The choices of particular algorithms and processors for specific products are examined for three innovative products: digital home audio, for downloading audio f...

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Bibliographic Details

Published in:	IEEE spectrum 36, 3 (1999).
Main Author:	Eyre, J.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	AC-3 decoder. Internet audio downloading. SolidAudio. TwinVQ compression. Audio compression. Audio decompression. Consumer product. Digital home audio. Digital signal processors. Real-time audio playback. Telephone calls. Transform-domain weighted interleave vector quantisation. Voice-over-Internet protocol.