Low-Bit-Rate Speech Coding

Low-bit-rate speech coding, at rates below 4 kb/s, is needed for both communication and voice storage applications. At such low rates, full encoding of the speech waveform is not possible; therefore, low-rate coders rely instead on parametric models to represent only the most perceptually relevant aspects of speech. While there are a number of different approaches for this modeling, all can be related to the basic linear model of speech production, where an excitation signal drives a vocal-tract filter.

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