Abstract: A method and an apparatus for calculating a downmixed signal and a residual signal are provided. According to the method, if a first target frame (a current frame or a previous frame of the current frame) is a switching frame, a to-be-encoded downmixed signal and a to-be-encoded residual signal of the subband corresponding to the preset frequency band in the current frame is calculated based on a switch fade-in/fade-out factor of a second target frame, an initial downmixed signal and an initial residual signal of the preset frequency band.

Abstract: A delay estimation method includes determining a cross-correlation coefficient of a multi-channel signal of a current frame, determining a delay track estimation value of the current frame based on buffered inter-channel time difference information of at least one past frame, determining an adaptive window function of the current frame, performing weighting on the cross-correlation coefficient based on the delay track estimation value of the current frame and the adaptive window function of the current frame, to obtain a weighted cross-correlation coefficient, and determining an inter-channel time difference of the current frame based on the weighted cross-correlation coefficient.

Abstract: This application discloses a downmixed signal calculation method and apparatus. The method includes: when a current frame or a previous frame of the current frame of a stereo signal is not a switching frame and a residual signal in the current frame or the previous frame does not need to be encoded, obtaining a second downmixed signal in the current frame and a downmix compensation factor of the current frame, correcting the second downmixed signal in the current frame based on the downmix compensation factor of the current frame, to obtain the first downmixed signal in the current frame and determining the first downmixed signal in the current frame as a downmixed signal in the current frame in a preset frequency band.

Abstract: This application relates to the artificial intelligence (AI) field, and specifically, to a voice quality enhancement method and a related device. The method includes: after a PNR mode is enabled, obtaining a noisy voice signal and target voice-related data, where the noisy-carrying voice signal includes a voice signal of a target user and an interfering noise signal, and the target voice-related data indicates a voice feature of the target user; and performing noise reduction on the noisy voice signal based on the target voice-related data by using a trained voice noise reduction model to obtain a noise-reduced voice signal of the target user, where the voice noise reduction model is implemented based on a neural network. In embodiments of this application, voice of a target person can be enhanced, and interference can be suppressed.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium is provided. The non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer instructions stored therein, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations comprise: determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame, where the determined channel combination scheme for the current frame is one of a plurality of channel combination schemes; and determining a coding mode of the current frame based on a channel combination scheme for a previous frame and the channel combination scheme for the current frame, where the coding mode of the current frame is one of a plurality of coding modes.

Abstract: A multi-channel signal encoding method includes obtaining a multi-channel signal of a current frame; determining an initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame; determining a difference parameter based on the initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame and multi-channel parameters of previous K frames of the current frame, where the difference parameter represents a difference between the initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame and the multi-channel parameters of the previous K frames, and K is an integer greater than or equal to one; determining a multi-channel parameter of the current frame based on the difference parameter and a characteristic parameter of the current frame; and encoding the multi-channel signal based on the multi-channel parameter of the current frame.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide a method and an apparatus for determining a weighting factor during stereo signal encoding. In those embodiments, a parameter value corresponding to the encoding mode of the to-be-encoded signal is determined based on an encoding mode of a to-be-encoded signal in a stereo signal and a correspondence between an encoding mode and a parameter value. Based on the determined parameter value and an energy spectrum of a linear prediction filter corresponding to an original line spectral frequency parameter of the to-be-encoded signal, a weighting factor for calculating a distance between the original line spectral frequency parameter and a target original line spectral frequency parameter is calculated.

Abstract: An inter-channel phase difference (IPD) parameter extraction method includes obtaining a parameter for obtaining an information extraction manner for a current frame of a multi-channel signal; obtaining an IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame based on the parameter for obtaining the information extraction manner, where the obtained IPD parameter extraction manner is one of at least two preset IPD parameter extraction manners; and obtaining an IPD parameter of the current frame based on the obtained IPD parameter extraction manner for the current frame.

Abstract: A rendering method and a related device are disclosed, and may be applied to a scenario such as production of music or film and television works, or the like. The method may be performed by a rendering device, or may be performed by a component (for example, a processor, a chip, a chip system, or the like) of a rendering device. The method includes: obtaining a first single-object audio track based on a multimedia file, where the first single-object audio track corresponds to a first sound object; determining a first sound source position of the first sound object based on reference information; and performing spatial rendering on the first single-object audio track based on the first sound source position, to obtain a rendered first single-object audio track.

Abstract: An audio encoding and decoding method and a related apparatus are provided. The audio encoding method includes: determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame; when the channel combination scheme for the current frame is different from a channel combination scheme for a previous frame, performing segmented time-domain downmix processing on left and right channel signals in the current frame based on the channel combination scheme for the current frame and the channel combination scheme for the previous frame, to obtain a primary channel signal and a secondary channel signal in the current frame; and encoding the obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal in the current frame.

Abstract: A method for encoding an audio signal includes obtaining an ITD value of a current frame of an audio signal; obtaining a characteristic parameter of the current frame, wherein the characteristic parameter comprises at least one of a signal-to-noise ratio of the current frame or a peak feature of cross-correlation coefficients of the current frame; determining, based on the characteristic parameter, whether to use the initial ITD value as the finalized ITD value of the current frame; and encoding the current frame based on the finalized ITD value of the current frame, wherein if the initial ITD value is determined as not used as the finalized ITD value of the current frame, the finalized ITD value of the current frame is the same as a finalized ITD value of a previous frame of the current frame.

Abstract: A stereo signal encoding method includes performing spectrum broadening on a quantized line spectral frequency (LSF) parameter of a primary channel signal in a current frame in a stereo signal to obtain a spectrum-broadened LSF parameter of the primary channel signal, determining a prediction residual of an LSF parameter of a secondary channel signal in the current frame based on an original LSF parameter of the secondary channel signal and the spectrum-broadened LSF parameter of the primary channel signal, and performing a quantization on the prediction residual of the LSF parameter of the secondary channel signal.

Abstract: This application discloses a downmixed signal calculation method and apparatus. The method includes: when a current frame or a previous frame of the current frame of a stereo signal is not a switching frame and a residual signal in the current frame or the previous frame does not need to be encoded, obtaining a second downmixed signal in the current frame and a downmix compensation factor of the current frame, correcting the second downmixed signal in the current frame based on the downmix compensation factor of the current frame, to obtain the first downmixed signal in the current frame and determining the first downmixed signal in the current frame as a downmixed signal in the current frame in a preset frequency band.

Abstract: In a stereo encoding method, a channel combination encoding solution of a current frame is first obtained, and then a quantized channel combination ratio factor of the current frame and an encoding index of the quantized channel combination ratio factor are obtained based on the obtained channel combination encoding solution, so that an obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal of the current frame meet a characteristic of the current frame.

Abstract: An encoding method includes determining an adaptive broadening factor based on a quantized line spectral frequency (LSF) vector of a first channel of a current frame of an audio signal and an LSF vector of a second channel of the current frame, and writing the quantized LSF vector and the adaptive broadening factor into a bitstream.

Abstract: A stereo signal processing method includes performing delay estimation on a stereo signal of a current frame to determine an inter-channel time difference of the current frame, identifying a sign of the inter-channel time difference of the current frame is different from a sign of an inter-channel time difference of a previous frame of the current frame, performing delay alignment processing on the first-channel signal of the current frame based on the inter-channel time difference of the current frame, and performing delay alignment processing on the second-channel signal of the current frame based on the inter-channel time difference of the previous frame.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a encoding method, and an encoder for a multi-channel signal. The encoding method includes: obtaining a first ITD of a current frame of a multi-channel signal includes an initial left channel signal and an initial right channel signal; obtaining a second ITD of the current frame based on the first ITD and a third ITD of a previous frame of the multi-channel signal; performing delay alignment on the initial left channel signal and the initial right channel signal based on the second ITD, to obtain an aligned left channel signal and an aligned right channel signal; and encoding the aligned left channel signal and the aligned right channel signal.

Abstract: A time-domain stereo parameter encoding method and a related product are provided. The time-domain stereo parameter encoding method includes: determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame; determining a time-domain stereo parameter of the current frame based on the channel combination scheme for the current frame; and encoding the determined time-domain stereo parameter of the current frame, where the time-domain stereo parameter includes at least one of a channel combination ratio factor or an inter-channel time difference.

Abstract: In a stereo encoding method, a channel combination encoding solution of a current frame is first obtained, and then a quantized channel combination ratio factor of the current frame and an encoding index of the quantized channel combination ratio factor are obtained based on the obtained channel combination encoding solution, so that an obtained primary channel signal and secondary channel signal of the current frame meet a characteristic of the current frame.

Abstract: An audio encoding and decoding method and related apparatus are provided. The audio encoding method may include determining a coding mode of a current frame. When determining that the coding mode of the current frame is an anticorrelated signal coding mode, the method further includes performing time-domain downmix processing on left and right channel signals in the current frame by using a time-domain downmix processing manner corresponding to the anticorrelated signal coding mode, to obtain a primary channel signal and a secondary channel signal, where the time-domain downmix processing manner corresponds to the anticorrelated signal coding mode is a time-domain downmix processing manner corresponding to an anticorrelated signal channel combination scheme, and the anticorrelated signal channel combination scheme is a channel combination scheme corresponding to a near out of phase signal.