In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in ...

Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...

Headphones for children designed to limit noise from outside have been recalled because the provided alkaline batteries may rupture and cause harm to the wearer. According to an announcement with the ...

Encoding digital audio data to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. Audio compression typically uses lossy methods, which eliminate bits that are not restored at the other end. ADPCM ...

Ear muffs designed to reduce sound shouldn’t damage the ears — especially if they’re made for children. That’s why Fort Worth, Texas-based Hearing Lab Technology/Lucid Audio recalled about 31,150 ...

Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called "EnCodec" that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta says ...