A teleconferencing application of Directional Audio Coding (DirAC) is presented. DirAC is a method for spatial sound recording and reproduction with arbitrary number of loudspeakers or with headphones. In telecommunication it can be used to deliver spatial sound by transmitting directional data as a side band to monophonic audio with low bit rate. In this work a C programming language implementation of DirAC for teleconference applications has been developed. Also, a low-cost B-format microphone array composed of miniature microphones for spatial sound capturing for DirAC encoding is presented and compared with Soundfield ST350 microphone.
Authors:
Ahonen, Jukka; Pulkki, Ville; Lokki, Tapio
Affiliation:
TKK
AES Conference:
30th International Conference: Intelligent Audio Environments (March 2007)
Paper Number:
28
Publication Date:
March 1, 2007
Subject:
Intelligent Audio Environments
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