II Low Delay Speech Coding. - 1. High Quality Low-Delay Speech Coding at 12 kb/s. - 2. Low Delay Speech Coder at 8 kbit/s with Conditional Pitch Prediction. - 3. Low Delay Coding of Speech and Audio Using Nonuniform Band Filter Banks. - 4. 8 kb/s Low-Delay CELP Coding of Speech. - 5. Lattice Low Delay Vector Excitation for 8 kb/s Speech Coding. - III Speech Quality. - 6. Subjective Assessment Methods for the Measurement of Digital Speech Coder Quality. - 7. Speech Quality Evaluation of the European North-American and Japanese Speech Coding Standards for Digital Cellular Systems. - 8. A Comparison of Subjective Methods for Evaluating Speech Quality. - IV Speech Coding for Wireless Transmission. - 9. Delayed Decision Coding of Pitch and Innovation Signals in Code-Excited Linear Prediction Coding of Speech. - 10. Variable Rate Speech Coding for Cellular Networks. - 11. QCELP: A Variable Rate Speech Coder for CDMA Digital Cellular. - 12. Performance and Optimization of a GSM Half Rate Candidate. - 13. Joint Design of Multi-Stage VQ Codebooks for LSP Quantization with Applications to 4 kbit/s Speech Coding. - 14. Waveform Interpolation in Speech Coding. - V Audio Coding. - 15. A Wideband CELP Coder at 16 kbit/s for Real Time Applications. - 16. Multirate STC and Its Application to Multi-Speaker Conferencing. - 17. Low Delay Coding of Wideband Speech at 32 Kbps Using Tree Structures. - 18. A Two-Band CELP Audio Coder at 16 Kbit/s and Its Evaluation. - 19. 9. 6 kbit/s ACELP Coding of Wideband Speech. - 20. High Fidelity Audio Coding with Generalized Product Code VQ. - VI Speech Coding for Noisy Transmission Channels. - 21. On Noisy Channel Quantizer Design for Unequal Error Protection. - 22. Channel Coding Schemes for the GSM Half-Rate System. - 23. Combined Source-Channel Coding of LSP Parameters UsingMulti-Stage Vector Quantization. - 24. Vector Quantization of LPC Parameters in the Presence of Channel Errors. - 25. Error Control and Index Assignment for Speech Codecs. - VII Topics in Speech Coding. - 26. Efficient Techniques for Determining and Encoding the Long Term Predictor Lags for Analysis-by-Synthesis Coders. - 27. Structured Stochastic Codebook and Codebook Adaptation for CELP. - 28. Efficient Multi-Tap Pitch Prediction for Stochastic Coding. - 29. QR Factorization in the CELP Coder. - 30. Efficient Frequency-Domain Representation of LPC Excitation. - 31. Product Code Vector Quantization of LPC Parameters. - 32. A Mixed Excitation LPC Vocoder with Frequency-Dependent Voicing Strength. - 33. Adaptive Predictive Coding with Transform Domain Quantization. - 34. Finite-State VQ Excitations for CELP Coders. - Author Index. Language: English