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Speech coding

US6470313B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 4, 1999
Grant dateOct 22, 2002
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Expiry dateMar 4, 2019

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L19/06
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A variable bit-rate speech coding method determines for each subframe a quantised vector d(i) comprising a variable number of pulses. An excitation vector c(i) for exciting LTP and LPC synthesis filters is derived by filtering the quantised vector d(i), and a gain value gc is determined for scaling the pulse amplitude excitation vector c(i) such that the scaled excitation vector represents the weighted residual signal {tilde over (s)} remaining in the subframe speech signal after removal of redundant information by LPC and LTP analysis. A predicted gain value ĝc is determined from previously processed subframes, and as a function of the energy Ec contained in the excitation vector c(i) when the amplitude of that vector is scaled in dependence upon the number of pulses m in the quantised vector d(i). A quantised gain correction factor {circumflex over (&ggr;)}gc is then determined using the gain value gc and the predicted gain value ĝc.

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