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G.729 is a royalty-free narrow-band vocoder-based audio data compression algorithm using a frame length of . It is officially described as Coding of speech at 8 kbit/s using code-excited linear prediction speech coding (CS-ACELP), and was introduced in 1996. The wide-band extension of G.729 is called G.729.1, which equals G.729 Annex J.

Key facts

Technology standard.title
G.729
Technology standard.image
Pcm.svg
Technology standard.status
In force
Technology standard.version
(10/17)
Technology standard.version_date
October 2017
Technology standard.organization
ITU-T
Technology standard.committee
ITU-T Study Group 16
Technology standard.related_standards
G.191, G.711, G.729.1
Technology standard.domain
audio compression
Technology standard.license
Freely available
Technology standard.website
https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-G.729
Technology standard.long_name
Coding of speech at 8 kbit/s using conjugate-structure algebraic-code-excited linear prediction (CS-ACELP)

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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • G.729 annexes
  • G.729 Annex A
  • G.729 Annex B
  • G.729 Annex J (G.729.1)
  • Licensing
  • Past patent litigation
  • RTP payload type
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

G.729 is a royalty-free narrow-band vocoder-based audio data compression algorithm using a frame length of . It is officially described as Coding of speech at 8 kbit/s using code-excited linear prediction speech coding (CS-ACELP), and was introduced in 1996. The wide-band extension of G.729 is called G.729.1, which equals G.729 Annex J.

Because of its low bandwidth requirements, G.729 is mostly used in voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications when bandwidth must be conserved. Standard G.729 operates at a bit rate of , but extensions provide rates of (Annex D, F, H, I, C+) and (Annex E, G, H, I, C+) for worse and better speech quality, respectively.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “G.729” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.