Abstract This paper presents an algorithm for speech signal compression based on the discrete Hartley transform. The developed algorithm presents the advantages to ensure low bit rate and to achieve high speech compression efficiency, while preserving the quality of the reconstructed signal. The numerical results included in this paper show that the developed algorithm is more effective than the discrete wavelet transform for speech signal compression.

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