There is provided an audio encoding device capable of causing a decoding side to freely select an audio decoding mode corresponding to a control method used for audio encoding and capable of generating data which can be decoded even when the decoding side does not correspond to the control method. The audio encoding device (100) outputs encoded data corresponding to an audio signal containing an audio component and encoded data corresponding to an audio signal containing no audio component. An audio encoding unit (102) encodes the input audio signal in a predetermined section unit and generates encoded data. An audio present/absent judgment unit (106) decides whether the input audio signal contains an audio component for each predetermined section. A bit embedding unit (104) performs synthesis of noise data only for those generated from the input audio signal of the voice absent section in the encoded data generated by the audio encoding unit (102), thereby acquiring encoded data corresponding to an audio signal containing an audio component and encoded data corresponding to an audio signal containing no audio component.
