Dichotic Presentation of Interleaving Critical-Band Envelopes: An Application to Multi-Descriptive Coding

01 January 2000

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A coding paradigm is proposed which is based solely on the properties of the human auditory system and does not assume any specific source properties. Hence, its performance is equally good for speech, noisy speech, and music signals. 

The signal decomposition is the proposed paradigm takes advantage of binaural properties of the human auditory system. This also leads to a natural multi-descriptive representation.