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Speech Compression

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Part of the book series: Springer Series in Information Sciences ((SSINF,volume 35))

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Speech compression, once an esoteric preoccupation of a few speech enthusiasts, has taken on a practical significance of singular proportion. As mentioned before, it all began in 1928 when Homer Dudley, an engineer at Bell Laboratories, had a brilliant idea for compressing a speech signal with a bandwidth of over 3000 Hz into the 100-Hz bandwidth of a new transatlantic telegraph cable. Instead of sending the speech signal itself, he thought it would suffice to transmit a description of the signal to the far end. This basic idea of substituting for the signal a sufficient specification from which it could be recreated is still with us in the latest linear prediction standards and other methods of speech compression for mobile phones, secure digital voice channels, compressed-speech storage for multimedia applications, and, last but not least, Internet telephony and broadcasting via the World Wide Web.

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fill a vacuum.

John Kenneth Galbraith (born 1908)

[British Prime Minister Ramsey] MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

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Schroeder, M.R. (2004). Speech Compression. In: Computer Speech. Springer Series in Information Sciences, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06384-2_5

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