LOW-DELAY UNIFIED SPEECH AND AUDIO CODEC

摘要

A unified speech and audio decoder is described, which comprises a frame buffer configured to buffer a sub-part of a datastream composed of consecutive frames in units of the frames so that the subpart continuously comprises at least one frame, each frame representing a coded version of a respective portion of consecutive portions of an audio signal, and each frame comprising a mode identifier assigning the respective frame to a respective one of a plurality of coding modes comprising a CELP (codebook excitation linear prediction) coding mode and a transform coded excitation linear prediction coding mode. Further, the unified speech and audio decoder comprises a CELP decoder configured to decode the frames to which the CELP coding mode is assigned to reconstruct the respective portions, and a transform coded excitation linear prediction decoder configured to decode the frames to which the transform coded excitation linear prediction coding mode is assigned, to reconstruct the respective portions, wherein the frame buffer is configured to distribute the frames buffered to the CELP decoder and the transform coded excitation linear prediction decoder under removal of the respective frames from the frame buffer, frame-wise.