A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING VOICE LATENCY IN A VOICE-OVER-DATA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM . IN A TRASNMITTER (400), DATA FRAMES ARE CREATED FROM AUDIO INFORMATION BY A VOCODER (406) AND STORED IN A QUEUE (408).PRIOR TO STORAGE, SOME OF THE DATA FRAMES ARE ELIMINATED, OR DROPPED, AND ARE NOT STORED IN THE QUEUE (408). IN A RECEIVER (600), DATA FRAMES ARE GENERATED FROM RECEIVED SIGNALS AND STORED IN A QUEUE (612). PRIOR TO STORAGE IN THE RECEIVER QUEUE (612), SOME OF THE DATA FRAMES ARE DROPPED. DATA FRAMES ARE DROPPED EITHER AT A SINGLE FIXED RATE, A DUAL FIXED RATE, OR A VARIABLE RATE, GENERALLY DEPENDING ON A COMMUNICATION CHANNEL LATENCY.BY DROPPING DATA FRAMES AT THE TRANSMITTER (400), THE RECEIVER (600), OR BOTH (400,600), VOICE LATENCY DUE TO DATA FRAME RETRANSMISSION IS REDUCED.(FIG 7)
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