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Telecommunication systems make intensive use of speech coders. In wireless systems, where bandwidth is limited, speech coders provide one of the enabling technologies to reach more users and furnish better services. In wireline systems, where bandwidth can be less of an issue, speech is also digitized and compressed to a certain extent depending on the system.

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Lefebvre, R., Gournay, P. (2008). Speech Coders. In: Havelock, D., Kuwano, S., Vorländer, M. (eds) Handbook of Signal Processing in Acoustics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30441-0_31

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