Voice communications remains the most important facet of mobile radio
services, which may be delivered over conventional fixed links, the
Internet or wireless channels. This all-encompassing volume reports on
the entire 50-year history of voice compression, on recent audio
compression techniques and the protection as well as transmission of
these signals in hostile wireless propagation environments.
Audio and Voice Compression for Wireless and Wireline Communications,
Second Edition is divided into four parts with Part I covering the
basics, while Part II outlines the design of analysis-by-synthesis
coding, including a 100-page chapter on virtually all existing
standardised speech codecs. The focus of Part III is on wideband and
audio coding as well as transmission. Finally, Part IV concludes the
book with a range of very low rate encoding techniques, scanning a range
of research-oriented topics.
- Fully updated and revised second edition of "Voice Compression and
Communications", expanded to cover Audio features
- Includes two new chapters, on narrowband and wideband AMR coding, and
MPEG audio coding
- Addresses the new developments in the field of wideband speech and
audio compression
- Covers compression, error resilience and error correction coding, as
well as transmission aspects, including cutting-edge turbo
transceivers
- Presents both the historic and current view of speech compression and
communications.
Covering fundamental concepts in a non-mathematical way before moving to
detailed discussions of theoretical principles, future concepts and
solutions to various specific wireless voice communication problems,
this book will appeal to both advanced readers and those with a
background knowledge of signal processing and communications.
