ON-THE-FLY TIME SCALING FOR COMPRESSED AUDIO STREAMS

Suzana Maranhão, Rogério Rodrigues, Luiz Soares

2006

Abstract

Time scaling is a technique used to modify media-object presentation duration. This paper proposes an audio time-scaling algorithm focused on supporting applications that need: to maintain the original data format for storage or immediate presentation on any legacy audio player; to perform linear time scaling in real time, allowing the adjustment factor to vary along the audio presentation; and to perform time mark-up maintenance, that is, to compute new time values for original marked audio time instants. The proposed algorithm is appropriate for those applications that do not need a great adjustment factor variation. The integration with content rendering tools is presented in the paper and also an example of using these tools in a hypermedia presentation formatter.

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in Harvard Style

Maranhão S., Rodrigues R. and Soares L. (2006). ON-THE-FLY TIME SCALING FOR COMPRESSED AUDIO STREAMS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-64-1, pages 110-117. DOI: 10.5220/0001570901100117


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sigmap06,
author={Suzana Maranhão and Rogério Rodrigues and Luiz Soares},
title={ON-THE-FLY TIME SCALING FOR COMPRESSED AUDIO STREAMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={110-117},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001570901100117},
isbn={978-972-8865-64-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2006)
TI - ON-THE-FLY TIME SCALING FOR COMPRESSED AUDIO STREAMS
SN - 978-972-8865-64-1
AU - Maranhão S.
AU - Rodrigues R.
AU - Soares L.
PY - 2006
SP - 110
EP - 117
DO - 10.5220/0001570901100117