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+Copyright 2015-2016 Institute of Technical Acoustics, RWTH Aachen University. Any usage and distribution is prohibited, unless explicitly granted by the authors.
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+## ITAConvolution
+
+ITAConvolution is a C++ library for convolving two time signals or an input signal with an impulse response. It also includes real-time filtering components that apply efficient block-based convolution using FFT.
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+### License
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+See [LICENSE](LICENSE.md) file.
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