Not sure if folks here follow along with Xiph (the Ogg folks) or their Opus codec project (standardized as RFC 6716), but given how much bandwidth was spent discussing MQA, I thought some might find it interesting. Version 1.3 of the Opus encoder was just released: https://people.xiph.org/~jm/opus/opus-1.3/
The big ticket items seem to be vastly improved speech/music detection (and much better low-bitrate encoding of speech, in particular), and added support for ambisonics (which are currently an IETF draft, soon to be RFC 8486).
I continue to be utterly amazed by some of the work happening in this space.
The big ticket items seem to be vastly improved speech/music detection (and much better low-bitrate encoding of speech, in particular), and added support for ambisonics (which are currently an IETF draft, soon to be RFC 8486).
I continue to be utterly amazed by some of the work happening in this space.