A novel frame error concealment scheme based on gain control for TCX audio codec

A novel frame error concealment scheme is proposed to improve the decoded audio quality of the receiver for transform coded excitation (TCX) audio codec. This scheme, which is a gain control approach based on the stability of linear predictive coding (LPC) filter, predicts the lost frames by utilizing the linear spectrum frequency and different continuous attenuation factor of different kinds of lost frames. Signal noise ratio (SNR) test and multiple stimuli with hidden reference and anchor (MUSHRA) test are conducted to evaluate the performance of this approach in adaptive multi-rate wideband plus (AMR-WB+) audio codec. Compared with the original frame error concealment scheme, our scheme achieves better audio recovery quality in AMR-WB+ audio codec.

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