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Each month an industry expert highlights a topic of importance to the AES community.
Listen, Learn, and Connect with advances in technology and best practices in audio.

Broadcast and Online Delivery

Broadcasting audio embraces several techniques to qualify, playout and transmit audio signals to the end-users, by using multiple distribution networks. After decades of analog broadcasting, audio signals were digitized before the rise of the Internet allowed the individual streaming of content. Nowadays, broadcasters usually offer linear channels as well as streaming platforms for direct access to content on demand.

The AES Technical Committee for Broadcast and Online Delivery covers the sound engineering topics that follow:

  • Digital terrestrial broadcasting of linear content such as TV and radio channels;
  • Digital broadcasting of linear content over the Internet;
  • On demand distribution "Internet streaming" of audio (podcasts) and audio for video content;
  • Qualification and measurements of audio signals prior to and during broadcasting;
  • Object-based audio applications in respect of broadcasting constraints such as limited bandwidth, various receiver capacities, rendering of immersive sound and interactivity features;
  • Audio/video synchronization, also known as “lipsync.”

The Technical Committee also welcomes and supports many sessions at each AES convention. These tutorials and workshops driven by experts from the five continents present the continuous progress of knowledge and efficient practices to bring the best quality of experience to final listeners.

Broadcasting and online delivery topics also involve regular collaborations with other AES Technical Committees on Spatial Audio, Recording Technology and Practices, Coding of Audio Signals, Perception and Evaluation of Audio Signals and Automotive Audio.

The resources curated in this edition of AES Inside Track are intended to offer a useful introduction to some recent developments in the field, subdivided in places into Production and Delivery themes.

Matthieu Parmentier

Curator: Matthieu Parmentier

Matthieu Parmentier started his audio career recording classical music CDs. He joined France Televisions "the French public broadcaster" in 1999 as a sound engineer for live programs and started the management of 3D audio and UHD video projects eight years later. Matthieu chairs the audio strategic programme of the European Broadcasting Union and co-chairs the Audio Engineering Society Technical Committee for Broadcast and Online Delivery. He chairs or participates in several collaborative R & D projects. He holds two license degrees in sound recording and video post-production and a master degree in audiovisual research from the Toulouse II University.

Broadcast and Online Delivery Resources

AES STANDARDS

Standards Reports and Recommended Practices - Production

Standards Reports and Recommended Practices - Delivery




AES Journal Spotlight Interview

This month Francis Rumsey interviews Bob Stuart about his paper with Peter Craven on "The Gentle Art of Dithering," published in the May Journal special issue on high resolution audio.


CUED UP

Sound Field Control

Philip Coleman

JULY 2019

AES - Audio Engineering Society