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    http://www.aes.org/publications/   » AES Publications - All available articles and documents from the Journal of Audio Engineering Society with search tool including a CD about coding artifacts.

    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/mpeg4/   » Apple - Overview of their implementation and contribution to the MPEG-4 standard.

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792381300   » Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics - Book by Mark Kahrs and Karlheinz Brandenburg.

    http://www.audioresearchlabs.com/   » Audio Research Labs - ARL is a commercial laboratory involved in subjective quality assessment methods like preparing and analyzing codec comparisons for 3GPP.

    http://www.codingtechnologies.com/   » Coding Technologies - Company that invented Spectral Band Replication (SBR) and combined it with MP3 (mp3PRO) and AAC (aacPlus or HE AAC).

    http://www.drm.org/   » Digital Radio Mondiale - DRM is a world-wide initiative to use analog AM radio for digital sound and services implementing aacPlus at very low bitrates, often mixed up with Digital Rights Management for copy protection.

    http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?forumid=11   » Doom9 - Besides this forum for audio codecs there are others for container formats and video encoding in general with FAQs.

    http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20011218S0048/   » EE Times - "Meeting MPEG-4 advanced audio coding requirements", knowledgeable article summarizing the most important properties of AAC for hardware playback.

    http://faac.sourceforge.net/oldsite/phorum/   » Faac.sourceforge.net - The old Audiocoding.com forum is still available providing valuable content like FAAC compiling issues with its search tool.

    http://www.research.att.com/projects/AnimatedHead/   » Facial Animation - AT&T Labs develops a computer human interface using 2D and 3D talking head-and-shoulder models driven by a Text-To-Speech synthesizer (TTS).

    http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/techinf/mpeg4/audio.html   » Fraunhofer IIS - Information about the different parts of MPEG-4 Natural or General Audio (GA) from one of the inventors of these formats, see also their page about MPEG-2 AAC.

    http://www.3gpp.org/TB/SA/SA4/SA4.htm   » 3GPP SA4 - This working group of the standardization organization deals with codecs like enhanced aacPlus or AMR-WB+ used in mobile telecommunication.

    http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/   » Hydrogen Audio - Forum about audio coding in general with two separate boards for AAC.

    http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/mpeg4/Projects/   » IBM Composite Media Group - Overview of their implementation and contribution to the MPEG-4 standard, especially for the Systems part.

    http://www.springer.com/east/home?SGWID=5-40109-22-33356358-0   » Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards - Book by Marina Bosi and Richard E. Goldberg.

    http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/   » ISO/IEC - Publicly available standards from the International Organization for Standardization including MPEG-4 with 14496-5 containing the Audio, Visual and Systems parts.

    http://web.media.mit.edu/~tristan/Classes/MAS.945/technical.html   » Machine Listening - Reading list for an MIT seminar, most of the mentioned publications are directly available on their web server or linked to Amazon's book section.

    http://www.mayah.com/   » Mayah - Hard- and software company for professional broadcasting products with AAC/MP4 support.

    http://www.mobiledia.com/   » Mobiledia - Reviews, articles and forum discussions about cell phones capable of AAC/MP4/3GP playback (also called "iTunes" format sometimes, use the site search).

    http://www.mpegla.com/m4s/   » MPEG LA - Patent pool administrator for the MPEG-4 Systems part of the standard including the MP4 file format.

    http://sound.media.mit.edu/mpeg4/   » MPEG-4 Structured Audio - Technical information and developer resources from the Machine Listening Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, the official homepage for this format maintained by Eric Scheirer.

    http://www.mpeg4.net/   » MPEG4.net - Resource for news, information and products about MPEG-4, H.264, Windows Media, High-Definition, Streaming Media and related technologies.

    http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/   » MP4-SA Developer Tools - John Lazarro and John Wawrzynek from the CS Division, UC Berkeley provide tutorials, downloads, manuals and links related to the Structured Audio format.

    http://lists.mpegif.org/pipermail/mp4-tech/   » Mp4-tech - The web archive of the public MPEG Industry Forum mailing list with many knowledgeable participants from companies like FhG, Apple and Microsoft.

    http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/   » Nokia developer forum - Platform to support the implementation of their software SDKs including AAC/MP4.

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071348190   » Principles of digital audio - Book by Ken C. Pohlmann.

    http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/   » QuickTime development - Apple offers technical FAQs, knowledge base and publicly available documentation files including the MOV file format.

    http://www.rjamorim.com/test/   » Roberto's listening tests - Provides public group comparisons of several AAC codecs and other formats at different bitrates.

    http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~moehler/synthspeech/   » Speech Synthesis Examples - Many TTS demos in several languages from different systems with links to their homepages.

    http://lsiwww.epfl.ch/saog/   » Structured Audio Open Group - The main goal of the SAOG was to implement Structured Audio (SA) in open source applications offering a portal for their users with forum and downloads of samples and software.

    http://www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/   » Telos Systems - Hardware manufacturer of the Zephyr ISDN codecs for radio and television broadcasters providing articles and brochures about different AAC implementations.

    http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/   » Text-To-Speech Synthesis - Bell Labs' / Lucent Technologies multi-lingual TTS demos and introduction to this coding method.

    http://www.tuner2.com/   » Tuner2 - List of internet radio stations using aacPlus for their low bitrate streams, among them SomaFM.com and Boomer Radio.

    http://www.vialicensing.com/   » Via Licensing - Patent pool administrator for AAC with FAQs and overviews of royalty fees for commercial implementations.

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    http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/ssi.php?a=out&f=13,14,44&show=20&type=rss   » Hydrogen Audio - Active forum topics in AAC - General and AAC - Tech as well as in MPEG4 Discussion. [RSS]

    http://www.mpeg4.net/rss/mp4events.xml   » MPEG4.net Events - Upcoming MPEG-4 and Streaming Media related calendar of events. [RSS]

    http://www.mpeg4.net/rss/mp4news.xml   » MPEG4.net News - The latest headlines about MPEG-4, Windows Media, Streaming Media and related technologies. [RSS]

    http://www.mpeg4.net/rss/mp4press.xml   » MPEG4.net Press releases - Announcements of new products from companies or events from organizations related to MPEG-4 and other technologies. [RSS]

    http://www.mpeg4.net/rss/mp4resource.xml   » MPEG4.net Resources - New sources of information like web sites, documentation or tests for MPEG-4 and related technologies. [RSS]


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