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speech compression

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speech compression
Encoding digital speech to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. The PCM, ADPCM, CELP and LD-CELP methods are commonly used for speech compression. See speech codec and data compression.
speech compression [′spēch kəm‚presh·ən]
(communications)
Modulation technique that takes advantage of certain properties of the speech signal to permit adequate information quality, characteristics, and the sequential pattern of a speaker's voice to be transmitted over a narrower frequency band than would otherwise be necessary.


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Ascend is acquiring Voxware's core codec technology, also known as a vocoder or speech compression algorithm.
Leveraging the company's proprietary advanced, proven digital speech processing technology and high-quality speech compression algorithms, ISD's CompactSPEECH products enable an array of digital features and functionality for products such as digital telephone answering devices.
Ditech's voice quality products allow these vendors to leverage speech compression to increase call capacity on the network without decreasing voice quality.
 
 
 
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