A 1200 bps speech coder based on MELP

This paper presents a 1.2 kbps speech coder based on the mixed excitation linear prediction (MELP) analysis algorithm. In the proposed coder, the MELP parameters of three consecutive frames are grouped into a superframe and jointly quantized to obtain a high coding efficiency. The interframe redundancy is exploited with distinct quantization schemes for different unvoiced/voiced (U/V) frame combinations in the superframe. Novel techniques for improving performance make use of the superframe structure. These include pitch vector quantization using pitch differentials, joint quantization of pitch and U/V decisions and LSF quantization with a forward-backward interpolation method. Subjective test results indicate that the 1.2 kbps speech coder achieves approximately the same quality as the proposed federal standard 2.4 kbps MELP coder.

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