| | Encore Software develops GSM-AMR (3GPP-AMR) speech coder for 3G wireless applications, May 14, 2001, Bangalore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | A Speech Coder, also known as "Codec" for compression/decompression, is a piece of DSP software that compresses digitized speech to reduce transmission channel or storage capacity requirements, and then decompresses received samples to reconstruct the original speech signal with some loss in signal quality. |
 | | Each speech coder is assigned a subjective measure that defines its closeness to "toll quality", a measure of acceptance for telephony applications. |
 | | A variable-rate encoding technique is used to change the rate at which to send speech data in accordance with the distance from the base station, or to prevent interference from electrical waves. |
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