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Design of a Low Bit-rate Speech Coder Based on Mixed Multi-band Excitation Model  

한우진 (한국과학기술원 전산학과)
오영환 (한국과학기술원 전산학과)
Abstract
MBE (multi-band excitation) coder can achieve high qualify synthetic speech below 4.0 kbps. There are, however, significant differences of the fine structure between the original spectrum and the synthetic spectrum. They are mainly due to the exclusive partition of voiced and unvoiced regions in frequency domain and the decision procedure based on the experimental threshold. This paper proposes MMBE (mixed multi-band excitation) speech model to overcome drawbacks of a MBE coder. In addition, two analysis methods, which do not need my decision procedure based on a threshold, are presented. Both voiced and unvoiced components can be mixed over all the frequency axis in the MMBE speech model. To illustrate the potential of the proposed speech model, we develop a 2.6 kbps MMBE coder and compare it with a 2.9 kbps MBE coder by both objective and subjective methods. The results have shown that the proposed coder has a better performance even at a lower bit-rate compared with the MBE coder.
Keywords
Low bit-rate speech coding; Speech coder; Multi-band excitation model; Speech source modeling;
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