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Here is an introduction to MPEG-4 Audio: Coding of Audio Objects MPEG-4 coding of audio objects provides tools for both representing natural sounds (such as speech and music) and for synthesizing sounds based on structured descriptions. The representation for synthesized sound can be derived from text data or so-called instrument descriptions and by coding parameters to provide effects, such as reverberation and spatialization. The representations provide compression and other functionalities, such as scalability or play-back at different speeds. Test Results: The MPEG-4 Audio coding tools covering 6kbit/s to 24kbit/s have undergone verification testing for an AM digital audio broadcasting application in collaboration with the NADIB(Narrow Band Digital Broadcasting) consortium. With the intent of identifying a suitable digital audio broadcast format to provide improvements over the existing AM modulation services, several codec configurations involving the MPEG-4 CELP, TwinVQ, and AAC