Improving the transcoding capability of speech coders

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 24-33

  Kang, Hong Goo ^a   Kim, Hong Kook ^b   Cox, Richard V ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

G.729; Interoperability; IS 641; Speech coding; Tandem; Transcoding; VoIP

Indexed keywords

DECODING; INTEROPERABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TRANSCODING;

SPEECH CODING;

EID: 0038612963     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2003.808823     Document Type: Article

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