Title :
Monotonic descent algorithm to choose pulse locations in the excitation sequence of a multipulse speech coder
Author :
Thorpe, T.F. ; Kingsbury, N.G.
Author_Institution :
Cambridge University, Engineering Department, Cambridge, UK
Abstract :
Determination of pulse locations by a multipulse coder is formulated as the minimisation of an error function in P-dimensional discrete space. A suboptimum solution is presented which offers better performance than conventional designs.
Keywords :
coding errors; minimisation; speech analysis and processing; P-dimensional discrete space; error function minimisation; excitation sequence; monotonic descent algorithm; multipulse speech coder; pulse locations; suboptimum solution;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19850688