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Challenges in Speech Coding Research

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Speech and Audio Processing for Coding, Enhancement and Recognition

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Speech and audio coding underlie many of the products and services that we have come to rely on and enjoy today. In this chapter, we discuss speech and audio coding, including a concise background summary, key coding methods, and the latest standards, with an eye toward current limitations and possible future research directions.

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  1. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106-6065, USA

    Jerry D. Gibson

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  1. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, USA

    Tokunbo Ogunfunmi

  2. School of EE&C Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, West Australia, Australia

    Roberto Togneri

  3. Qualcomm Inc., Santa Clara, California, USA

    Madihally (Sim) Narasimha

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Gibson, J.D. (2015). Challenges in Speech Coding Research. In: Ogunfunmi, T., Togneri, R., Narasimha, M. (eds) Speech and Audio Processing for Coding, Enhancement and Recognition. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1456-2_2

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