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Delayless Robust DPCM Audio Transmission for Digital Wireless Microphones

Authors: Pflug, Florian; Fingscheidt, Tim

AES Convention 134 · Paper 8814 · May 2013

Abstract

The employment of digital wireless microphones in professional contexts requires ultra-low delay, strong robustness, and high audio quality. On the other hand, audio coding is required in order to comply with the restrictions on the bandwidth of the radio channel, making the resulting source-coded audio signal more vulnerable to channel distortions. Therefore, in this paper we present a transmission system for differential pulse-code modulated (DPCM) audio with receiver-sided soft-decision error concealment exploiting channel reliability information, explicit redundancy by simple delayless parity-check codes, and residual redundancy within the source-coded audio signal. Simulations on frequency-shift keying (FSK)-modulated channels with additive white Gaussian noise show considerable gains in audio quality compared to hard-decision decoding and soft-decision decoding only exploiting reliability information and 0th-order a priori knowledge.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 134
AES Convention
134
Paper number
8814
Publication date
May 6, 2013
Session subject
Audio Signal Processing
Affiliation
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper