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Scala Technology specialises in audio signal processing research, design and consultancy.
Scala has developed audio compression algorithms that achieve efficient coding with fine-grain bitrate scalability, with applications in internet audio streaming, mobile multimedia communication, and audio archiving.
Our scalable technology offers the following advantages over conventional coding approaches:
Fine-grain scalability, where useful increases in coding quality can be achieved with small increments in bitrate
High coding efficiency, competitive with fixed-bitrate coding schemes used in MPEG-2/4 AAC
High computational efficiency - our coding scheme benefits from a simple single-pass quantisation stage
Error resilience - Scala bitstreams are robust against transmission errors.
Windows evaluation software is available to demonstrate Scala's error-resilient scalable coding technology and compare performance with other codecs.