Full Rate 

or FR or GSM-FR or GSM 06.10 was the first digital speech coding standard used in

the GSM digital mobile phone system. The bit rate of the codec is 13 kbit/s, or 1.625 bits/audio
sample (often padded out to 33 bytes/20 ms or 13.2 kbit/s). The quality of the coded speech is
quite poor by modern standards, but at the time of development (early 1990s) it was a good
compromise between computational complexity and quality, requiring only on the order of a
million additions and multiplications per second. The codec is still widely used in networks
around the world. Gradually FR will be replaced by Enhanced Full Rate (EFR) and Adaptive
Multi-Rate (AMR) standards, which provide much higher speech quality with lower bit rate.

Half Rate (HR or GSM-HR or GSM 06.20) is a speech coding system for GSM,

developed in the early 1990s.

Since the codec, operating at 5.6 kbit/s, requires half the bandwidth of the Full

Rate codec, network capacity for voice traffic is doubled, at the expense of audio
quality. It is recommended to use this codec when the battery is low, it saves 30% more
energy[citation needed]. The sampling rate is 8 kHz with resolution 13 bit, frame length 160
samples (20 ms) and subframe length 40 samples (5 ms).

Enhanced Full Rate or EFR or GSM-EFR or GSM 06.60 is a speech coding standard that was

developed in order to improve the quite poor quality of GSM-Full Rate (FR) codec. Working at
12.2 kbit/s the EFR provides wirelike quality in any noise free and background noise conditions.
The EFR 12.2 kbit/s speech coding standard is compatible with the highest AMR mode.
Although the Enhanced Full Rate helps to improve call quality, the codec consumes about 5%
more energy[

The Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR or AMR-NB) audio codec is a patented audio data

compression scheme optimized for speech coding. AMR was adopted as the standard
speechcodec by 3GPP in October 1998 and is now widely used in GSM and UMTS. It
uses link adaptation to select from one of eight different bit rates based on link
conditions.

AMR is also a file format for storing spoken audio using the AMR codec. Many modern
mobile telephone handsets can store short audio recordings in the AMR format, and
both free and proprietary programs exist (see Software support) to convert between this
and other formats, although it should be remembered that AMR is a speech format and
is unlikely to give ideal results for other audio. The common filename extension is .amr.
There also exists another storage format for AMR that is suitable for applications with
more advanced demands on the storage format, like random access or synchronization
with video. This format is the 3GPP-specified 3GP container format based on ISO base
media file format.[3]
here are a total of 14 modes of the AMR codec, 8 are available in a full rate channel
(FR) and 6 on a half rate channel (HR).

Mode Bitrate (kbit/s) Channel Compatible with

AMR_12.2
12.20 FR ETSI GSM enhanced full rate
0

AMR_10.2
10.20 FR
0

AMR_7.95 7.95 FR/HR

TIA/EIA IS-641 TDMA enhanced full

AMR_7.40 7.40 FR/HR
rate

AMR_6.70 6.70 FR/HR ARIB 6.7 kbit/s enhanced full rate

AMR_5.90 5.90 FR/HR

AMR_5.15 5.15 FR/HR

AMR_4.75 4.75 FR/HR

FR/HR
AMR_SID 1.80