Audio encoding method and apparatus capable of fast bit rate control

Abstract

Provided are an audio encoding method and apparatus capable of fast bit rate control. The audio encoding method includes: converting audio sampling data into frequency domain data; adjusting a scalefactor value in each predetermined frequency band based on an available bits and allowed distortion of a psychoacoustic model to allocate a number of necessary bits to the frequency domain data and quantize the frequency domain data; and generating a bit stream based on the quantized data. The quantizing of the frequency domain data includes: obtaining the available bits for the frequency domain data; obtaining the common scalefactor value satisfying that the used bits is not larger than the available bits, using a difference the available bits and the used bits to quantize the audio data; calculating quantization noise in the each predetermined quantization band; and adjusting a scalefactor value of a quantization band in which the quantization noise exceeds the allowed distortion of the psychoacoustic model to quantize the audio data.

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