Sound and numbers -- Fundamentals of digital audio -- Digital audio recording -- Digital audio reproduction -- Error correction -- Optical disc media -- Compact disc -- DVD -- Blu-ray -- Low bit-rate coding : theory and evaluation -- Low bit-rate coding : codec design -- Speech coding for transmission -- Audio interconnection -- Personal computer audio -- Telecommunications and internet audio -- Digital radio and television broadcasting -- Digital signal processing -- Sigma-delta conversion and noise shaping

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