Abstract: A method of reconstructing, at the receiving end, digital data defining an encoded voice signal segment lost in transmission between the transmitter and the receiver in a transmission system wherein a low-frequency signal such as a residual baseband signal is derived at the transmitting end from the signal to be encoded and is then distributed among several sub-bands whose sampled contents are quantized separately. The reconstruction method includes a step of analyzing the received signal to detect any missing segment thereof and, as the case may be, to initiate an analysis, within each sub-band, of the segment(s) adjacent to the lost segment, so as to generate a term relating to the period T.sub.(k) of the signal so analyzed and to reconstruct a segment of signal of period T.sub.(k) intended to be substituted for the lost segment. Cyclic redundancy is used to detect errors, and modulo sequence numbering identification is used to detect loss of packet.

Abstract: This coder dispatches the bits resulting from the coding operation of a speech signal into a format for transmission at a rate chosen from a plurality of predetermined transmission rates. More specifically, the contents of at least part of the speech signal frequency bandwidth is split into several sub-bands. Said sub-bands are regrouped into sub-groups, each of said sub-groups corresponding to at least one of said possible transmission rates, i.e. to at least one sub-group coding bit rate. The signal samples belonging to each sub-group are recoded through a dynamical allocation of requantizing steps between the sub-bands. The obtained bits resulting from the recoding are dispatched into a multirate frame according to the sub-group which they belong to.

Abstract: A method of transmitting digitized voice signals as packets of bits in a digital transmission network to which a plurality of terminals acting as sources of voice signals are attached. The method includes, at the transmitting end and for each source, the steps of: a dividing the signal into successive, digitally-coded segments; performing a so-called source activity detection; and assembling the bits resulting from the coding operation into packets, each packet being provided with a header containing, in particular, a parity bit whose logic value is modified whenever an inactivity or long pause is detected. At the receiving end, detection of a change in the value of said parity bit causes the delivery of a packet of bits to the decoder/synthesizer to be delayed by a given time interval called retention delay.