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With the advent of internet and streaming; reducing the size of video and audio files became of great importance. Thus, an efficient method that compresses multimedia content will win the battle. We decided to work with audio compression and investigate the differences between the methods and approaches available to represent these audio files, specifically Spoken Arabic and Quran Recitation. In order to obtain higher compression ratio and quality, we focus on Lossy compression techniques on wave files as a base-line. Under The lossy audio compression algorithm there are several different techniques based on complexity, size, quality, time and usage, we rely on the most popular techniques which are ADPCM, MP3,MP2, A-law and U-law .This paper presents a tool to evaluate Lossy compression techniques according to the characteristics of the signal, in term of Quality, size, and context of use. The developed tool is called Efficient Audio Compression Tool (EACT).
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Mohdar, F.J., Al-Otaibi, M.S., Aboalsamh, H.A. (2011). Audio Compression Testing Tool for Multimedia Applications. In: Choraś, R.S. (eds) Image Processing and Communications Challenges 3. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 102. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23154-4_46
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