In general, speech coding is a procedure to represent a digitized speech signal using as few bits as possible, maintaining at the same time a reasonable level of speech quality. A not so popular name having the same meaning is speech compression. Speech coding has matured to the point where it now constitutes an important application area of signal processing. Due to the increasing demand for speech communication, speech coding technology has received augmenting levels of interest from the research, standardization, and business communities | WILEY SPEECH CODING ALGORITHMS Foundation and Evolution of Standardized Coders SPEECH CODING ALGORITHMS Foundation and Evolution of Standardized Coders WAI C. CHU Mobile Media Laboratory DoCoMo USA Labs San Jose California WILEY- INTERSCIENCE A JOHN WILEY SONS INC. .
