Voice Compression and Communications by Lajos Hanzo, F. Clare... - 9780471150398

Voice Compression and CommunicationsPrinciples and Applications for Fixed and Wireless Channels\nAuthor(s): Lajos Hanzo, F. Clare A. Somerville, Jason P. Woodward\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: Wiley-IEEE Press\nISBN-13: 9780471150398, 978-0471150398\nSynopsis\nUp-to-date, expert coverage of topics in wireless voice communications Voice communication is the most important facet of mobile radio service. Even when the predicted surge of wireless data and Internet services becomes a reality, voice will remain the most natural means of human communication. Voice Compression and Communications details issues in wireless voice communications and treats compression, channel coding, and wireless transmission as a joint subject. Part I covers background material, whereas Part II provides detailed information on both proprietary and standardized analysis-by-synthesis codecs, including the speech codecs of virtually all existing wireline-based a.