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A Practical Handbook of Speech Coders
Contributor(s): Goldberg, Randy (Author), Riek, Lance (Author)

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ISBN: 0849385253     ISBN-13: 9780849385254
Publisher: CRC Press
OUR PRICE: $209.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2000
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Annotation: A Practical Handbook of Speech Coders helps developers and programmers to find digital speech coders suitable for their applications. The book also shows engineers how to tailor existing speech coders and create new coders by providing building blocks used as a foundation. Topics include: history of speech coders o background information o modern speech coding algorithms o measuring the quality of speech coders o inventing new coders o analysis of the benefits and limitations of new coders. This will be the first book to discuss how to craft a code to one's own specific needs.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Telecommunications
- Technology & Engineering | Electrical
- Computers
Dewey: 621.382
LCCN: 00026994
Series: Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.42" W x 9.54" L (1.15 lbs) 256 pages
Features: Illustrated
 
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The demand for digital speech coding algorithms grows every day, fueled by applications such as streaming speech over the Internet, Internet telephone, digital cellular telephony, wireless teleconferencing, and various multimedia applications. Until now, most of the books available on audio coding have been collections of individually authored papers. Others have discussed the fundamental coders, but neglected many of the innovations currently in use. Unlike these books, A Practical Handbook of Speech Coders offers in-depth treatment of the basics of speech coding plus the innovations to the basic methods that make the coders useful and efficient.
The authors designed this work for engineers, scientists, and manager who need to understand the emerging speech coding techniques and telecommunication standards. However, it will prove useful to people at all levels of speech coder experience:

  • If you want to simply download the code for an existing algorithm, this book helps you evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of all publicly available codes and choose the right one, then points you to the Internet location where the code is available for download.
  • For experts who want to improve on existing coders, this book provides the parameters of current coders and the techniques to improve upon them. You can download an existing algorithm or code it using the algorithmic descriptions in the book, make your innovations, and then test the code with the procedures given.
  • If you want to become an expert and have some basic knowledge of digital signal processing, you can learn the innovative steps taken by the inventor of each coder, explore the rigorous research techniques needed to develop your own coder, and become proficient in existing vocoder technology.
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