Transform trellis coded quantization of speech using small frame sizes

Proposes a transform trellis coded quantization (TTCQ) scheme suitable for low-delay speech coding. This scheme is based on a general transform domain formulation for small frame sizes and the trellis coded quantization technique previously proposed where Ungerboeck´s amplitude modulation trellises and set partitioning ideas are used for source coding. Using the discrete cosine transform the authors apply this technique to the coding of 7 kHz wideband speech, a matter of interest due to ISDN based applications. A 32 kbps low-delay coder is developed, simulation results showing a very high speech quality comparable to that obtained by the G722 standard at 64 kbps