An improved mechanism for speech transmission

摘要

The invention relates to a method of reducing speech transmission delay in a mobile communications system, in which system speech encoded into speech blocks is transmitted over air interface in uplink direction from a first mobile terminal to a first base station and in downlink direction via a second base station to a second mobile terminal by multiplexing the blocks of the encoded speech into time slots of a frame structure for the communication. The place of the speech block in the frame structure is determined so that substantially no time gap exists in communications when the speech block is transmitted from the second base station to the second mobile terminal. <IMAGE>