Speech coding has evolved into a highly essential branch of applied signal processing, resulting in an explosion of products such as cellular, answering machines, mobile telephony and most recently voice-over-IP. Because of the increasing demand for speech communication. Speech coding technology has captured more and more attention from the research, standardization and business communities. All of whom have been encouraged to pursue and investigate alternative coding methods with the objective of minimizing its limitation and deficiencies.

This workshop covers standards from the inception of digital communication, compiles many of the complex techniques widely used in speech coding. By understanding the principles, performances and limitation of the most successful standards being developed, researchers, engineers and pracitioners will be able to gain sound insights of widely adopted methodologies, with the ultimate objective of developing the next generation of improved algorithms.