The name makes sense because it refers to encoding speech with a very small number (eg. 5) of sine waves, as opposed to the roughly one thousand you'd expect fo

The name makes sense because it refers to encoding speech with a very small number (eg. 5) of sine waves, as opposed to the roughly one thousand you'd expect for a FFT window of e.g. 2048 samples http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Sine-wave_speech http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Sine-wave_speech