High quality MP-CELP speech coding at 12 kb/s and 6.4 kb/s

Author

Ozawa, Kazunori ; Serizawa, Masahiro ; Nomura, Toshiyuki

Author_Institution

Inf. Technol. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Kawasaki, Japan

fYear

1997

fDate

7-10 Sep 1997

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

72

Abstract

This paper proposes an MP-CELP (multi-phase-based CELP) speech coding, at bit rates of 12 kb/s and 6.4 kb/s, which is the higher and lower bit rates extension to ITU-T G.729. In MP-CELP, the amplitudes or signs of the multi-pulse excitation are simultaneously vector quantized (VQ). A combination search between pulse locations and the VQ codebook enhances the quantization performance. By restricting the pulse locations based on the algebraic structure, the location search complexity and the transmission bits are reduced. Further, in order to improve the LSP VQ performance at 6.4 kb/s, a combination search between multiple candidates of th LSP VQ codevectors and closed-loop lag candidates is developed. The speech quality for 12 kb/s and 6.4 kb/s MP-CELP is higher than that for G.726 at 32 kb/s and G.726 at 24 kb/s, respectively, in clean speech conditions

Keywords

code standards; linear predictive coding; search problems; speech coding; speech intelligibility; speech processing; telecommunication standards; vector quantisation; 12 kbit/s; 24 kbit/s; 32 kbit/s; 6.4 kbit/s; G.726; ITU-T G.729; LSP VQ codevectors; LSP VQ performance; MP-CELP speech coding; VQ codebook; algebraic structure; amplitudes; clean speech conditions; closed-loop lag candidates; combination search; higher bit rate extension; location search complexity reduction; lower bit rate extension; multi-phase-based CELP; pulse locations; quantization performance; signs; speech quality; transmission bits reduction; vector quantization; Bit rate; Books; Filters; Information technology; National electric code; Petroleum; Quantization; Speech codecs; Speech coding; Speech synthesis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Speech Coding For Telecommunications Proceeding, 1997, 1997 IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Pocono Manor, PA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4073-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCFT.1997.623901

Filename

623901