Companding of Speech signal

Companding of Speech signal:

Compander = Compressor + Expander

In Non - Uniform Quantizer the step size varies. The use of a non – uniform quantizer is equivalent to passing the baseband signal through a compressor and then applying the compressed signal to a uniform quantizer. The resultant signal is then transmitted.

At the receiver, a device with a characteristic complementary to the compressor called Expander is used to restore the signal samples to their correct relative level. The Compressor and expander take together constitute a Compander.