Editing Enhanced full rate (section)

{{short description|Speech coding standard}}
'''Enhanced Full Rate''' or '''EFR''' or '''GSM-EFR''' or '''GSM 06.60''' is a [[Speech encoding|speech coding]] standard that was developed in order to improve the quality of [[GSM]].

Enhanced Full Rate was developed by [[Nokia]] and the [[Université de Sherbrooke]] (Canada). In 1995, [[ETSI]] selected the Enhanced Full Rate voice codec as the industry standard codec for GSM/DCS.<ref name="archive-nokia">{{cite web |author=Nokia |url=http://www.nokia.com/news/news_htmls/nmp_951104.html  |title=Nokia Sets Industry Standard with New Voice Codec |date=1995-11-04 |access-date=2009-09-20 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/19961220013144/http://www.nokia.com/news/news_htmls/nmp_951104.html |archive-date = 1996-12-20}}</ref>