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The two most important applications using speech coding are [[mobile phone|mobile phones]] and [[internet phone|internet phones]].

The techniques used in speech coding are similar to that in [[audio compression]] and [[audio coding]] where knowledge in [[psychoacoustics]] is used to transmit only data that is relevant to the human auditory system. For example, in narrow-band speech coding, only information in the frequency band 400Hz to 3500Hz is transmitted but the reconstructed signal is still adequate for illegbility [intelligibility?].

However, speech coding differs from audio coding in that there is a lot more statistical information available about the properties of speech. In addition, some auditory information which is relevant in audio coding can be unneccesary in the speech coding context. In speech coding, the most important criterion is always preservation of intelligiblityintelligibility of speech, with a constrained amount of transmitted data.

But it should be emphasised that intelligibility of speech includes, besides the actual literal content, also speaker identity, emotions, intonation, timbre etc. that are all important for perfect intelligibility.