AUDIO CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS

摘要

A method of coding an audio signal comprises receiving an audio signal x to be coded and transforming the received signal from the time to the frequency domain. A quantised audio signal x is generated from the transformed audio signal x together with a set of long-term prediction coefficients A which can be used to predict a current time frame of the received audio signal directly from one or more previous time frames of the quantised audio signal x. A predicted audio signal x is generated using the prediction coefficients A. The predicted audio signal x is then transformed from the time to the frequency domain and the resulting frequency domain signal compared with that of the received audio signal x to generate an error signal E(k) for each of a plurality of frequency sub-bands. The error signals E(k) are then quantised to generate a set of quantised error signals E(k) which are combined with the prediction coefficients A to generate a coded audio signal.