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Clipping Saturation and Companding

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This lecture discusses the options for handling input signals that are not within a known interval, including clipping samples to set them within the interval, introducing linear distortion, and using saturation curves to smoothly map the input onto the desired range. It also covers the use of companders in audio signal processing to allocate quantization levels based on the probability distribution of the input signals.

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