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Written by a team of researchers from the University of Southampton, UK, this reference for practitioners and advanced students focuses on voice compression issues in wireless communications. The volume begins with a non-mathematical explanation of fundamental concepts. The main part of the text covers both standardized and proprietary speech codecs and transceivers and their applications. Some of the topics addressed include wideband speech coding and a variety of sub-4 kbps codecs and transceivers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) More Reviews and Recommendations LAJOS HANZO has coauthored five books on mobile radio communications and published more than 300 research papers on a variety of topics in wireless multimedia communications. He holds a chair in telecommunications at the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, and he is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. F. CLARE A. SOMERVILLE is with the Global Wireless Systems Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Swindon, UK. His current research involves real-time techniques for transmission of voice over GPRS and the resultant speech quality attained. JASON P. WOODARD is with UbiNetics Ltd., where he is responsible for the development and implementation of various algorithms for third-generation mobile communications products. Tags: voice compression and communications |
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