Toll quality variable-rate speech codec
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Abstract
This paper presents a source controlled variable-rate CELP type speech codec. First, a voice activity detection block distinguishes active speech frames from silence and background noise. The active speech is further classified into voiced and unvoiced frames. The voiced frames have variable bit-rate pitch-lag quantization based on the characteristics of the speech, whereas the unvoiced frames are coded without pitch information. A variable bit-rate fixed codebook excitation with a variable number of excitation pulses is determined for each speech frame. The performance of the linear analysis part of the codec as well as the input speech characteristics determine the excitation bit-rate. The average bit-rate of the codec is around 7.0 kbit/s for active speech, and the overall bit-rate ranges from 0 to 7.85 kbit/s. The described variable-rate codec produces toll quality speech equal to that of the 32 kbit/s ADPCM (G.726) standard.
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