A Practical Handbook of Speech Coders

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Summary: ... bucks down the toilet if you ask me...
Review: The authors gathered some trends and superficial informations from the literature and put them in the form of a "book". It's not worth reading for the serious folks since there is no detail about anything. Web sites and internet addresses provided to find the source code are either disfunctional or obvious, a search session at Yahoo! is much more productive.

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Summary: A poor introduction to speech coding
Review: Very brief discussion of some aspects of speech coding. Perhaps useful for marketing or business people to learn some terminology; but definitely not sophisticated enough for the technical crowd. The authors include topic like psychoacoustic, which is clearly not a dominant part of today's speech coding techniques, but yet make a whole chapter about it, waste of space and time...