A comparison of five 16 kbps voice coding algorithms

Author

Tremain, Thomas E. ; Collura, John S.

Author_Institution

US Dept. of Defense, Fort Meade, MD, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

11-14 Apr 1988

Firstpage

695

Abstract

The US Government´s digital voice processor consortium measured the performance of five voice processors designed to produce high quality, high intelligibility speech at a digital transmission rate of 16 kbps. Performance was measured in terms of word intelligibility using the diagnostic rhyme test (DRT) and of voice quality using the diagnostic acceptability measure (DAM). Mean opinion scores (MOS) are also reported. The performance of the five 16 kbps voice processors is compared to the military standard at 16 kbps which is continuous variable slope delta modulations (CVSD) and the CCITT standard ADPCM at 32 kbps. Analysis of the data led the consortium to recommend that, subject to certain constraints, the adaptive predictive coder with hybrid quantization (APC-HQ) be established as the DOD standard for operation at 16 kbps

Keywords

encoding; speech analysis and processing; standards; vocoders; 16 kbits/s; CCITT standard ADPCM; DOD standard; US Government´s digital voice processor consortium; adaptive predictive coder; continuous variable slope delta modulations; diagnostic acceptability measure; diagnostic rhyme test; hybrid quantisation; military standard; speech analysis; voice coding algorithms; voice processors; voice quality; word intelligibility; Code standards; Data analysis; Delta modulation; Military standards; Process design; Quantization; Speech processing; Testing; US Department of Defense; US Government;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1988. ICASSP-88., 1988 International Conference on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1520-6149

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1988.196681

Filename

196681