The [[modified discrete cosine transform]] (MDCT), a type of [[discrete cosine transform]] (DCT) algorithm, was adapted into a speech coding algorithm called LD-MDCT, used for the [[AAC-LD]] format introduced in 1999.<ref name="Schnell">{{cite conference |last1=Schnell|first1=Markus |last2=Schmidt |first2=Markus |last3=Jander |first3=Manuel |last4=Albert |first4=Tobias |last5=Geiger |first5=Ralf |last6=Ruoppila |first6=Vesa |last7=Ekstrand |first7=Per |last8=Bernhard |first8=Grill |date=October 2008 |title=MPEG-4 Enhanced Low Delay AAC - A New Standard for High Quality Communication |url=https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/iis/de/doc/ame/conference/AES-125-Convention_AAC-ELD-NewStandardForHighQualityCommunication_AES7503.pdf |conference=125th AES Convention |publisher=[[Audio Engineering Society]] |access-date=20 October 2019 |website=[[Fraunhofer IIS]]}}</ref> MDCT has since been widely adopted in [[voice-over-IP]] (VoIP) applications, such as the [[G.729.1]] [[wideband audio]] codec introduced in 2006,<ref name="Nagireddi">{{cite book |last1=Nagireddi |first1=Sivannarayana |title=VoIP Voice and Fax Signal Processing |date=2008 |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |isbn=9780470377864 |page=69 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5AneeZFE71MC&pg=PA69}}</ref> [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]'s [[FaceTime]] (using AAC-LD) introduced in 2010,<ref name="AppleInsider standards 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/08/inside_iphone_4_facetime_video_calling.html|date=June 8, 2010|access-date=June 9, 2010|title=Inside iPhone 4: FaceTime video calling|publisher=[[Apple community#AppleInsider|AppleInsider]]|author=Daniel Eran Dilger}}</ref> and the [[CELT]] codec introduced in 2011.<ref name="presentation">[http://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/linux_conf_au_CELT_2.ogv Presentation of the CELT codec] by Timothy B. Terriberry (65 minutes of video, see also [http://www.celt-codec.org/presentations/misc/lca-celt.pdf presentation slides] in PDF)</ref>
[[Opus (audio format)|Opus]] is a [[free software]] speechaudio coder. It combines both the MDCT (CELT) and LPC (SILK) audio compression algorithms, using the former for speech.<ref>{{cite conference |last1=Valin |first1=Jean-Marc |last2=Maxwell |first2=Gregory |last3=Terriberry |first3=Timothy B. |last4=Vos |first4=Koen |title=High-Quality, Low-Delay Music Coding in the Opus Codec |conference=135th AES Convention |publisher=[[Audio Engineering Society]] |date=October 2013 |arxiv=1602.04845 }}</ref> It is widely used for VoIP calls in [[WhatsApp]].<ref name="Register">{{cite news |last1=Leyden |first1=John |title=WhatsApp laid bare: Info-sucking app's innards probed |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/27/whatsapp_forensic_analysis/ |access-date=19 October 2019 |work=[[The Register]] |date=27 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="Hazra">{{cite book |last1=Hazra |first1=Sudip |last2=Mateti |first2=Prabhaker |chapter=Challenges in Android Forensics |editor-last1=Thampi |editor-first1=Sabu M. |editor-last2=Pérez |editor-first2=Gregorio Martínez |editor-last3=Westphall |editor-first3=Carlos Becker |editor-last4=Hu |editor-first4=Jiankun |editor-last5=Fan |editor-first5=Chun I. |editor-last6=Mármol |editor-first6=Félix Gómez |title=Security in Computing and Communications: 5th International Symposium, SSCC 2017 |date=September 13–16, 2017 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9789811068980 |pages=286–299 (290) |doi=10.1007/978-981-10-6898-0_24 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1u09DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA290}}</ref><ref name="Srivastava">{{cite book |last1=Srivastava |first1=Saurabh Ranjan |last2=Dube |first2=Sachin |last3=Shrivastaya |first3=Gulshan |last4=Sharma |first4=Kavita |chapter=Smartphone Triggered Security Challenges: Issues, Case Studies and Prevention |journal=Cyber Security in Parallel and Distributed Computing |editor-last1=Le |editor-first1=Dac-Nhuong |editor-last2=Kumar |editor-first2=Raghvendra |editor-last3=Mishra |editor-first3=Brojo Kishore |editor-last4=Chatterjee |editor-first4=Jyotir Moy |editor-last5=Khari |editor-first5=Manju |title=Cyber Security in Parallel and Distributed Computing: Concepts, Techniques, Applications and Case Studies |date=2019 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=9781119488057 |pages=187–206 (200) |doi=10.1002/9781119488330.ch12 |s2cid=214034702 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FzGtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA200}}</ref> The [[PlayStation 4]] video game console also uses Opus for its [[PlayStation Network]] system party chat.<ref name="playstation">{{cite web|url=https://doc.dl.playstation.net/doc/ps4-oss/ |title=Open Source Software used in PlayStation4 |publisher=Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. |access-date=2017-12-11}}{{fv|reason=Source does not indicate how Opus is used|date=September 2022}}</ref>
[[Codec2]] is another free software speech coder, which operates at [[bit rate]]s as low as 450 bit/s.<ref>{{cite web |title=GitHub - Codec2 |website=[[GitHub]] |date=November 2019 |url=https://github.com/x893/codec2}}</ref>
