Audio Profiles
The MPEG-4 Audio standard defines several profiles. These profiles are based on the object types and each profile supports different list of object types. Each profile may also have several levels, which limit some parameters of the tools present in a profile. These parameters usually are the sampling rate and the number of audio channels decoded at the same time.
| Audio Profile | Audio Object Types | First public release date |
|---|---|---|
| AAC Profile | AAC LC | 2003 |
| High Efficiency AAC Profile | AAC LC, SBR | 2003 |
| HE-AAC v2 Profile | AAC LC, SBR, PS | 2006 |
| Main Audio Profile | AAC Main, AAC LC, AAC SSR, AAC LTP, AAC Scalable, TwinVQ, CELP, HVXC, TTSI, Main synthesis | 1999 |
| Scalable Audio Profile | AAC LC, AAC LTP, AAC Scalable, TwinVQ, CELP, HVXC, TTSI | 1999 |
| Speech Audio Profile | CELP, HVXC, TTSI | 1999 |
| Synthetic Audio Profile | TTSI, Main synthesis | 1999 |
| High Quality Audio Profile | AAC LC, AAC LTP, AAC Scalable, CELP, ER AAC LC, ER AAC LTP, ER AAC Scalable, ER CELP | 2000 |
| Low Delay Audio Profile | CELP, HVXC, TTSI, ER AAC LD, ER CELP, ER HVXC | 2000 |
| Natural Audio Profile | AAC Main, AAC LC, AAC SSR, AAC LTP, AAC Scalable, TwinVQ, CELP, HVXC, TTSI, ER AAC LC, ER AAC LTP, ER AAC Scalable, ER TwinVQ, ER BSAC, ER AAC LD, ER CELP, ER HVXC, ER HILN, ER Parametric | 2000 |
| Mobile Audio Internetworking Profile | ER AAC LC, ER AAC Scalable, ER TwinVQ, ER BSAC, ER AAC LD | 2000 |
| HD-AAC Profile | AAC LC, SLS | 2009 |
| ALS Simple Profile | ALS | 2010 |
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