With 26 entirely new and 5 extensively revised chapters out of the total of 39, the Mobile
Communications Handbook, Third Edition presents an in-depth and up-to-date overview of …

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

This paper describes the adaptive multirate wideband (AMR-WB) speech codec selected by
the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for GSM and the third generation mobile …

For the near future, the recent predictions and roadmaps of silicon semiconductor
technology all agree that the number of transistors on a chip will keep growing exponentially …

An in-depth treatment of algorithms and standards for perceptual coding of high-fidelity
audio, this self-contained reference surveys and addresses all aspects of the field. Coverage …

Speech is the most common form of human communication, and many conversations use
digital communication links. For efficient transmission, acoustic speech waveforms are …

Speech compression is a key technology underlying digital cellular communications, VoIP,
voicemail, and voice response systems. We trace the evolution of speech coding based on …

Lossy coding of speech, high-quality audio, still images, and video is commonplace today.
However, in 1948, few lossy compression systems were in service. Shannon introduced and …

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a very attractive means for human-machine
interaction. The degree of maturity reached by speech recognition technologies during …

This article describes the ITU-T Recommendation G. 729 Annex A (G. 729A) for encoding
speech signals at 8 kb/s with low complexity. G. 729A is the standard speech coding …