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Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Surround sound For HD(tm) Radio Demonstrated

(credit: medianetwork weblog)

Telos/Omnia and Fraunhofer IIS will carry our the first public demonstration of their new surround system for HD Radio™ at the NAB Radio Show in San Diego on October 6-8. They say the system delivers impressive full surround audio without compromising the stereo signal in any way. HD Radio, the new digital radio broadcast standard for the USA, works in the traditional FM and AM channels to deliver high quality digital audio to listeners. About 100 radio stations are already on-air using HD Radio technology, with many more planning to begin HD Radio broadcasts. The key to the system is that all the pieces of audio that go to the surround channels are present in the two stereo channels. Additionally, there is an ancillary data channel used for transmitting spatial information. The surround decoder, if present in the receiver, uses this information to move the pieces of audio to their respective positions, recreating the original multi-channel sound. In the system presented, 80 kb/s are used for the stereo channels and 16 kb/s for the surround information. The system is based on work by Fraunhofer IIS and Agere Systems in the area of "binaural cue coding". Three essential factors are required for the perception of a spatial audio image: level difference, time difference and coherence between channels. These values are represented as a function of frequency and time with very compact coding and allow for a huge data saving compared to transmitting all audio channels individually. Harald Popp, head of the Fraunhofer IIS Multimedia Realtime Systems Department notes, "Having invented MP3 we see surround as the next major audio enhancement. The sound is exquisite in the lab and will be as striking on air." Telos CEO Steve Church comments, "Radio station owners paid for an old-fashioned FM stereo license, but with this technology they could have a state-of-the-art digital surround license for no additional cost." The surround technology can work with any core stereo codec. Fraunhofer IIS has already presented it as an enhancement to MP3 and MPEG-4 HE-AAC, and work is underway to marry it with other codecs.
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