Speech coding is a highly mature branch of signal processing deployed in products such as cellular phones, communication devices, and more recently, voice over

It is becoming increasingly apparent that all forms of communication-including voice-will be transmitted through packet-switched networks based on the Internet

Speech coding has been an ongoing area of research for several decades, yet the level of activity and interest in this area has expanded dramatically in the las

Remarkable progress is being made in spoken language processing, but many powerful techniques have remained hidden in conference proceedings and academic papers

A Practical Handbook of Speech Coders offers in-depth treatment of the basics of speech coding plus the innovations to the basic methods that make the coders us