Digital audio systems

Course title: Digital audio systems

Code: FEIT05L022

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+1+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject:

Course goals/Competences: Knowledge of the principles and steps of production, storage, transfer and reproduction of digital audio signals, mastering the methods and techniques of audio compression, as well as streaming audio.

Total available number of classes: 180

Curriculum: Fundamentals of digital audio, principles of the digitization of sound, unwanted effects; overview of audio systems and specifications; digital storage, bit rate and compression, DA audio convertors, audio formats; standard audio interfaces (USB, SPDIF ...); principles of audio coding, psychoacoustics, PCM, coding techniques (FFT, DCT, subband, lossy and lossless); MPEG-1,3,7 and MPEG-2000 standards; MP-3, AC-3, AAC, streaming techniques; audio-CD and DVD-audio, digital sound storage, CD reproduction, digital audio tape (DAT); streaming audio on the internet, architecture, servers, protocols; electronic sound generation; speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis.

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