Context: During encoding, 576 time-domain samples are taken and are transformed to 576 frequency-domain samples.[clarification needed] If there is a transient, 192 samples are taken instead of 576. This is done to limit the temporal spread of quantization noise accompanying the transient. (See psychoacoustics.)

Question: How many domain samples are taken during encoding?
Answer: 576

Question: Domain samples are transformed into what?
Answer: frequency-domain samples

Question: When are 192 samples taken instead of 576?
Answer: there is a transient

Question: When 192 samples are taken instead of 576, it is done in an effort to limit what?
Answer: temporal spread

Question: What accompanies a transient?
Answer: quantization noise