Speech Coding
Channasandra Ravishankar,
Spiros Dimolitsas,
Channasandra Ravishankar
Hughes Network Systems, Germantown, MD
Search for more papers by this authorSpiros Dimolitsas
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Search for more papers by this authorChannasandra Ravishankar,
Spiros Dimolitsas,
Channasandra Ravishankar
Hughes Network Systems, Germantown, MD
Search for more papers by this authorSpiros Dimolitsas
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
The sections in this article are
- 1 Waveform Coders
- 2 Parametric Speech Coders
- 3 Excitation Modeling
- 4 Transformed-Domain Speech Coding
- 5 Speech Coding Standards
- 6 Speech Coder Performance Assessment
- 7 Concatenated Speech Coding
- 8 Future Trends in Speech Coding
- 9 Conclusions
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