Acronyms.

Notation.

Introduction.

Signal Processing Techniques.

Stochastic Processes and Models.

Linear Prediction.

Scalar Quantization.

Pulse Code Modulation and Its Variants.

Vector Quantization.

Scalar Quantization of Linear Prediction Coefficient.

Linear Prediction Coding.

Regular-Pulse Excitation Coders.

Code-Excited Linear Prediction.

The Federal Standard Version of CELP.

Vector Sum Excited Linear Prediction.

Low-Delay CELP.

Vector Quantization of Linear Prediction Coefficient.

Algebraic CELP.

Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction.

Source-Controlled Variable Bit-Rate CELP.

Speech Quality Assessment.

Appendix A: Minimum-Phase Property of the Forward Prediction-Error Filter.

Appendix B: Some Properties of Line Spectral Frequency.

Appendix C: Research Directions in Speech Coding.

Appendix D: Linear Combiner for Pattern Classification.

Appendix E: CELP: Optimal Long-Term Predictor to Minimize the Weighted Difference.

Appendix F: Review of Linear Algebra: Orthogonality, Basis, Linear Independence, and the Gram-Schmidt Algorithm.

Bibliography.

Index.