A 4 kb/s toll quality harmonic excitation linear predictive speech coder

The harmonic excitation linear predictive speech coder (HE-LPC) is a technique derived from MBE and MB-LPC type of speech coding algorithms. The HE-LPC coder has the potential of producing high quality speech at 4.8 kb/s and below. This coder employs a new pitch estimation and voicing technique. In addition, new DCT based LPC and residual amplitude quantization techniques have been developed. The 4 kb/s HE-LPC coder with a 14th order LPC filter was found to produce much better speech quality than the various low rate speech coding standards, including 3.6 kb/s INMARSAT Mini-M AMBE vocoder. During formal ITU ACR test, the 4 kb/s HE-LPC vocoder was found to produced equivalent performance to 32 kb/s ADPCM and G.729 for both flat and modified IRS filtered clean input speech conditions. The HE-LPC algorithm can also be extended to cover bit rates between 1.2 and 8 kb/s range depending on the application.

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