Methods and corresponding apparatuses for transmitting and receiving audio signals are described. A transformation is performed on the audio signals in units of frame in order to obtain transformed audio data of each frame, said transformed audio data consisting of multiple signal components in the frequency domain. These signal components of each frame are distributed into multiple adjacent packets in order to generate packets in which signal components distributed from multiple frames are interleaved. Subsequently, the generated packets are transmitted. Accordingly, in case that packet loss occurs during transmission, the audio signals can be recovered based on the received signal components without consuming additional bandwidth. Therefore, robustness against packet loss can be achieved with little overhead.