Q3.2: Information on speech coding and compression

The following books cover speech coding/compression.

Douglas O'Shaughnessy, Speech Communication: Human and Machine, Addison Wesley series in Electrical Engineering: Digital Signal Processing, 1987.
Bishnu Atal in ed. Fallside, F. and W. Woods, ed. Computer Speech Processing. London: Prentice/Hall International, 1985.

Digital Coding of Waveforms

W.B. Kleijn and K.K. Paliwal (Eds.), Speech Coding and Synthesis, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1995.
Contents, preface etc on the WWW: http://www.elsevier.nl/section/engtech/scs/menu.htm
Thomas P. Barnwell, Kambiz Nayebi and Craig H Richardson, Speech Coding: A Computer Laboratory Textbook, John Wiley and Sons Inc, 1996.
Schuyler R Quackenbush, Tom P Barnwell III, Mark A Clements, Objective Measures of Speech Quality, Prentice-Hall, 1988.

And the are good tutorial articles.

Makhoul, J. "Linear Prediction: A Tutorial Review." Proc. of the IEEE 63 (1975): 561 - 580.

comp.compression FAQ: Includes a few questions and answers on the compression of speech.
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.compression/
Tony Robinson's Speech Analysis Course: A complete course on speech analysis, including some stuff on speech coding.
http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ajr/SA95/
http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ajr/SA95/node78.html
ITU Coding Standards: Members of the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) can obtain copies of the Series G Recommendations (including G.711/721/723/728) from the ITU WWW site (http://www.itu.ch/) and from http://www.itu.ch/itudoc/itu-t/rec/g/g700-799.html.
Jason Woodard's Speech Coding Page: Introduction to speech coding plus information on a series of speech coding standards.
http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk/speech_codecs/index.html
WWW searchable online-bibiliography for Phonetics and Speech Technology: Over 8000 entries provided by Institut fur Phonetik at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt.
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~ifb/bib_engl.html
Ciaran McElroy's Speech Coding Page: Introduction to many types of speech coding.
http://wwwdsp.ucd.ie/speech/tutorial/speech_coding/speech_tut.html

Nam Phamdo's Speech Coding Demonstration: Examples of ADPCM, LD-CELP, CELP, LPC10 and CELP coding and coding over a noisy channel.
http://admii.arl.mil/~fsbrn/phamdo/speech_demo.html
Phil Karn's Digital/Analog Voice Demo: Examples of several speech coding systems.
http://www.qualcomm.com/people/pkarn/voicedemo/