Digital audio coding made perceptual modeling central to audio engineering

Evidence

Only the emergence of audio coding in digital audio at the end of the 1980s forced the modelling of auditory perception to become a central engineering challenge. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 2319

Categorization

• XREF: Links to psychoacoustic masking models used in MP3/AAC codecs — a concrete application of the acoustic-perception models central to the reader’s stated goal.