The phrase "audio decoder" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a device or software that converts audio signals from one format to another.
Example: "The audio decoder is essential for playing high-quality sound in our home theater system."
Alternatives: "sound decoder" or "audio interpreter".
When facing the design of either Layer-II decoding only or a universal MPEG audio decoder, such a little but unavoidable computation engine leads to special design consideration and effort.
This week, STMicroelectronics introduced a Motion Picture Experts Group MPEGG) Layer 3 audio decoder chip, which allows the recording and playback of voice.
The Blu-ray camp can boast that their technology is superior, but HD DVD started off with local storage and a second video and audio decoder for PIP, which Blu-ray does not have.
PortalPlayer has been considering "strategic options" for the last several months, with such talk beginning in earnest in April after the company lost the mid- and high-end design for the iPod Nano to Samsung, which was able to bundle flash memory with an audio decoder.
These experiments were conducted in an Opel Vectra 2-liter sedan (Figure 7(a)) equipped with a DVD player, a 7-inch LCD display, a multichannel audio decoder, and four loudspeakers (two mounted in the lower panel of the front door and two behind the back seat).
The three new systems on a chip simplify the set-top box design by combining components like an audio-video decoder, memory interface and peripheral interfaces, all on one chip, the company said.
The received bit stream is input to the core decoder decoding the low-band audio signal, and providing the SBR decoder with the SBR relevant bit stream data.
At last, more analyses are necessary for extending the audio- and video-model components to more diverse degradations such as other loss distributions, video and audio encoder and decoder settings, and the audiovisual model to audiovisual synchronization artifacts.
In addition, post-processing in time domain is used to improve the synthesized SWB audio at the decoder of G.729.1 Annex E. Test items for BWE were obtained by applying the TSCC-based method and MFCC-based method to the G.729.1-coded G.729.1-coded
Transcoding: It is the process of decoding the audio signal with a decoder that is different than the one used in the encoding operation.
This capability allows for an AV receiver with the necessary decoder to decode the compressed audio stream.
