Digital Audio



3. Quantization

Figure 2 shows an anlog signal being quantized.



If the height of each bar is translated into a digital number, then the signal is said to be represented by pulse-code modulation, or PCM.

The sampling frequency commonly used is 8000 Hz. The quatization level is 8 bits. The file size of one second speech is about 64 Kbits.

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