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Wireless Transmission of Audio Using Adaptive Lossless Coding

Authors: Trainor, David

AES Convention 127 · Paper 7873 · October 2009

Abstract

In audio devices, such as smartphones, media players and wireless headsets, designers face the conflicting

requirements of elevating coded audio quality and reducing algorithm complexity, device power dissipation and

transmission bit-rates. As a result, there are significant challenges in providing highest-quality real-time audio

streaming between devices over wireless networks. Mathematically-lossless audio coding algorithms are an

attractive means of maximizing coded audio quality. However, in the context of wireless audio transmission

between portable devices, characteristics of such algorithms such as modest levels of bandwidth reduction, encoding

complexity and robustness to data loss need to be carefully controlled. Such control can be elegantly engineered by

incorporating real-time adaptation and scaling into the audio coding algorithm itself. This paper describes a lossless

audio coding algorithm called apt-X Lossless, which has been designed with scalability and automated adaptation as its principal charateristics.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 127
AES Convention
127
Paper number
7873
Publication date
October 6, 2009
Session subject
Data Compression
Affiliation
APTX (APT Licensing, Ltd.), Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper