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