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Digital speech coder having improved vector excitation source

US4896361A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 6, 1989
Grant dateJan 23, 1990
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Expiry dateJan 6, 2009

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L2019/0013
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An improved excitation vector generation and search technique (FIG. 1) is described for a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech coder (100) using a codebook memory of excitation code vectors. A set of M basis vectors v.sub.m (n) are used along with the excitation signal codewords (i) to generate the codebook of excitation vectors u.sub.i (n) according to a "vector sum" technique (120) of converting stored selector codewords into a plurality of interim data signals, multiplying the set of M basis vectors by the interim data signals, and summing the resultant vectors to produce the set of 2.sup.M codebook vectors. Only M basis vectors need to be stored in memory (114), as opposed to all 2.sup.M code vectors.

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