There is disclosed a
channel decoder apparatus (40) for generating a vectorial feature representation as a vectorial feature representation (40a, 45) in a format specific of a source decoder (50), from a sequence of symbols (36), the vectorial feature representation (40a) representing a source
signal (1, 5), the
channel decoder apparatus being configured to apply at least one channel-decoder neural network, NN (40a, 42), to the sequence of symbols (36) or another representation (46a, 43a, 42a) of the sequence of symbols, thereby generating the vectorial feature representation in the format specific of the source decoder (50). There is disclosed a channel
encoder apparatus (30) for encoding a source
signal (1) received as a vectorial feature representation (20a, 21a) from a source
encoder (20), the vectorial feature representation (20a, 21a) being in a vectorial format specific of the source
encoder (20), the channel encoder apparatus (30) being configured to apply at least one channel-encoder neural network, NN (30a), to the vectorial feature representation (20a, 21a) in the vectorial format specific of the source encoder (20) or to another feature representation (22a, 23a, 24a, 25) of the vectorial feature representation (20a, 21a), to provide a sequence of symbols (35) from the vectorial feature representation (20a, 21a) or the other feature representation (22a, 23a, 24a, 25).