FIPS 137, originally issued as FED-STD-1015, is a secure telephony

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standard for

Linear Predictive Coding Linear predictive coding (LPC) is a method used mostly in audio signal processing and speech processing for representing the spectral envelope of a digital signal of speech in compressed form, using the information of a linear predictive mod ...

vocoder A vocoder (, a portmanteau of ''voice'' and ''encoder'') is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation. The vocoder ...

developed by the

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and finished on November 28, 1984. It was based on the earlier STANAG 4198 promulgated by

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on February 13, 1984. FED-STD-1015 was re-designated as ''Federal Information Processing Standard'' ( FIPS) Publication 137, (FIPS PUB 137) on October 20, 1988. It is also known as "LPC-10". The

codec A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal. ''Codec'' is a portmanteau of coder/decoder. In electronic communications, an endec is a device that acts as both an encoder and a decoder on a signal or ...

uses a bit rate of 2.4 kbit/s, requiring 20 MIPS of processing power, 2 kilobytes of

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and features a frame size of 22.5 ms. Additionally, the codec requires a large lookahead of 90 ms. Recently an improved version of the standard was introduced. With a longer super frame structure and better VQ quantizer, the

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is reduced to 800 bit/s.

References

External links

CELP-3.2a and LPC-10

LPC10 presentation, Soo Hyun Bae, ECE 8873 Data Compression & Modeling, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004
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