What are the desirable properties of a speech coder? - Multimedia Compression.

What are the desirable properties of a speech coder?

Following are the desirable properties of speech coders:

- Low Bit-Rate.

- Low Memory Size

- Low Coding Delay

- High Speech Quality

- Robustness Across Different Languages / Speakers

- Robustness in the Presence of Channel Errors

- Good Performance on Non-Speech Signals, like telephone signaling.