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G.729 Annex C), the audio compression standard
of the ITU-T containing C-source code for implementation
verification of the G.729c Standard titled "Coding
of Speech at 8 kbit/s Conjugate-Structure Algebraic-Code-Excited-Linear-Prediction
(CS-ACELP) Annex C: Reference floating-point
implementation for G.729 CS-ACELP 8 kbit/s speech
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