Strategies for improving the performance of CELP coders at low bit rates (speech analysis)

Some of the distortions produced by CELP (code-excited linear prediction) coders are characterized. It is found that the coder does not reproduce high frequencies well and that rapid changes in the speech signal are not adequately tracked. Within the framework of the current CELP concept, strategies are discussed that can reduce these distortions. Nonstationarities in the speech signal can be better followed by allowing a flexible allocation of the bits used for the excitation. However, the bit allocation procedures and the way the bits are used need further improvement. The reproduction of higher frequencies can be improved by changing the error-weighting procedure or by shaping the code-book excitation functions.<<ETX>>

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