psychoacoustic
Adjective
Meaning
psychoacoustic (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to psychoacoustics
Examples
A few key improvements, in chronological order: *May 1999: a new psychoacoustic model (gpsycho) is released along with LAME 3.0.
Encoding and decoding The MPEG-1 standard does not include a precise specification for an MP3 encoder, but does provide example psychoacoustic models, rate loop, and the like in the non-normative part of the original standard.
In algorithms such as MP3, however, a large number of samples have to be analyzed to implement a psychoacoustic model in the frequency domain, and latency is on the order of 23 ms (46 ms for two-way communication)).
It uses psychoacoustic models to discard or reduce precision of components less audible to human hearing, and then records the remaining information in an efficient manner.
LAME is a free software project that has had many improvements since it was first released in 1998, including an improved psychoacoustic model.
Sony's ATRAC codec differs from uncompressed PCM in that it is a psychoacoustic lossy audio data reduction scheme and is such that the recorded signal does not require decompression on replay.