CONTENTS

         A.1     Scope
        A.2     Definitions, symbols and abbreviations
                  A.2.1     Definitions
                  A.2.2     Symbols
                  A.2.3     Abbreviations
        A.3     General
        A.4     Functions on the transmit (TX) side
                  A.4.1     ISF evaluation
                  A.4.2     Frame energy calculation
                  A.4.3     Analysis of the variation and stationarity of the background noise
                  A.4.4     Modification of the speech encoding algorithm during SID frame generation
                  A.4.5     SID-frame encoding
        A.5     Functions on the receive (RX) side
                  A.5.1     Averaging and decoding of the LP and energy parameters
                  A.5.2     Comfort noise generation and updating
        A.6     Computational details and bit allocation