PROVIDING A TIME WARP ACTIVATION SIGNAL AND ENCODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL THEREWITH

摘要

An audio encoder comprises a window function controller (504), a windower (502), a time warper (506) with a final quality check functionality, a time/frequency converter (508), a TNS stage (510) or a quantizer encoder (512), the window function controller (504), the time warper (506), the TNS stage (510) or an additional noise filling analyzer (524) are controlled by signal analysis results obtained by a time warp analyzer (516) or a signal classifier (520). Furthermore, a decoder applies a noise filling operation using a manipulated noise filling estimate depending on a harmonic or speech characteristic of the audio signal.