Definition of "kbit"

We demonstrate that the proposed codec operating at 48 kbit/s and 64 kbit/s out-performs both G.722.1C and MP3 and has quality comparable to AAC-LD, despite having less than one fourth of the algorithmic delay of these codecs..

2016, Jean-Marc Valin, Timothy B. Terriberry, Christopher Montgomery, Gregory Maxwell, “A High-Quality Speech and Audio Codec With Less Than 10 ms Delay”, in IEEE Transactions on Audio‎, volumes Speech and Language Processing