Adaptive Multi Rate – WideBand (AMR-WB) is a
speech coding standard developed after the
AMR using same technology like
ACELP. The codec provides excellent speech quality due to wider speech bandwidth of 50–7000 Hz compared to narrowband speech codecs which in general are optimized for
POTS wireline quality of 300–3400 Hz. AMR-WB is codified as G.722.2, an
ITU-T standard speech codec. A common
file extension for AMR-WB is .awb.
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Adaptive Multi Rate – WideBand plus (AMR-WB+) is an audio
codec that extends
AMR-WB. It adds support for stereo signals and higher sampling rates. Another main improvement is the use of transform coding additionally to
ACELP. This greatly improves the generic audio coding. Automatic switching between transform coding and ACELP provides both good speech and audio quality with moderate bit rates.
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