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