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A-Law

Published September 29, 2003 12:00 am
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The ITU standard for analog to digital audio data conversion using PCM coding and companding. The A-Law technique is used throughout Europe and has a more constant “signal-to-quantizing” noise ratio than its North American counterpart, u-Law.

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