An adaptive multi-rate speech coder for digital cellular telephony

We have developed an adaptive multi-rate (AMR) speech coder designed to operate under the GSM digital cellular full rate (22.8 kb/s) and half rate (11.4 kb/s) channels and to maintain high quality in the presence of highly varying background noise and channel conditions. Within each total rate, several codec modes with different source/channel bit rate allocations are used. The speech coders in each codec mode are based on the CELP algorithm operating at rates ranging from 11.85 kb/s down to 5.15 kb/s, where the lowest rate coder is a source controlled multi-modal speech coder. The decoders monitor the channel quality at both ends of the wireless link using the soft values for the received bits and assist the base station in selecting the codec mode that is appropriate for a given channel condition. The coder was submitted to the GSM AMR standardization competition and met the qualification requirements in an independent formal MOS test.

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