Mode adaptive Unequal Error Protection for transform predictive speech and audio coders

In this paper we investigate the application of Unequal Error Protection (UEP) channel coding schemes to the Transform Predictive Coding (TPC) audio coding paradigm. The TPC paradigm has natural perceptual ordering of the bitstream that provides a good match with the UEP concept. Also introduced is the general idea of Mode Adaptive UEP schemes that adapt to the differing bit-error sensitivity profiles of signal adaptive multimode source-coders. By doing this the decoded signal quality is optimized jointly over the input signal, the channel conditions and the bit-error sensitivity profile of the source coder.