{HEAD ~ A speech and musical signal codec} employing {TAIL ~ a band splitting technique} encodes sound source signals of each of a plurality of bands using a small number of bits 
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{ HEAD ~ A speech and musical signal codec } employing { TAIL ~ a band splitting technique } encodes sound source signals of each of a plurality of bands using a small number of bits
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