State-space approach to linear predictive coding of speech — A comparative assessment

Speech coders are fundamental component in telecommunication and multimedia infrastructure. Several systems like, mobile telephony, voice over internet protocol (VOIP), audio conferencing etc., rely on efficient speech coding. Speech coders strive to provide low-bit rate maintaining the same speech quality and intelligibility. Linear predictive coding uses spectral properties of the speech to “optimize” the coder´s performance for human ear. In this paper we perform a comparative assessment of speech coding performance of some state-space filters to give designers an insight into capabilities of these filters. The filters considered are Kalman filter, state-space recursive least-squares (SSRLS) and SSRLS with adaptive memory (SSRLSWAM). The results of RLS and LMS are also quoted. The performance is judged in terms of perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) and prediction gain.