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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2007

On-the-fly Auditory Masking for Scalable VOIP Bridges

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Endpoints or conference servers of current audio-conferencing solutions use all the audio frames they receive in order to mix them into one final aggregate stream. However, at each time-instant, some of this content may not be audible due to auditory masking. Hence, sending corresponding frames through the network leads to a loss of bandwidth, while decoding them for mixing or spatial audio processing leads to increased processor load. In this paper, we propose a solution based on an efficient on-the-fly auditory masking evaluation. Our technique allows prioritizing audio frames in order to select only those audible for each connected client. We present results of quality tests showing the transparency of the algorithm. We describe its integration in a France Telecom audio conference server. Tests in a 3D game environment with spatialized chat capabilities show a 70% average reduction in required bandwidth, demonstrating the efficiency of our method.
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inria-00606803 , version 1 (19-07-2011)

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Arnault Nagle, Nicolas Tsingos, Guillaume Lemaitre, Aurelien Sollaud. On-the-fly Auditory Masking for Scalable VOIP Bridges. International Conference on Intelligent Audio Environments (AES 2007), Mar 2007, Saariselkä, Finland. pp.9. ⟨inria-00606803⟩

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