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

"Ultra Low Bit-Rate Speech Coding" focuses on the specialized topic of speech coding at very low bit-rates of 1 Kbits/sec and less, particularly at the lower en