• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.939-942
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 ITU-T G.723.1, G.729 부호화기와 MLT(Modulated Lapped Transform) 방법을 이용한 광대역 음성 부호화방법을 제안한다. 제안된 광대역 음성부호화 방법은 16 kHz로 샘플링된 입력신호를 QMF(Quadrature Mirror Filter)사용하여 저대역과 고대역으로 나누며, 각 대역은 8 kHz의 샘플링을 갖는 협대역 음성 신호로 변환된다. 고대역은 MLT변환 후 벡터 양자화하며 또한 MLT를 사용한 ATC(Adaptive Transform Coding)방법을 적용하여 표현하며 저대역은 G.723.1과 G.729 부호화기를 사용한다. 설계된 광대역 음성부호화기의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 MOS (Mean Opinion score)실험을 수행하였다. MOS 실험을 통해 16 kbps G.729-MLT VQ방식이 G.722 56kbps 와 비슷한 음질을 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.809-812
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 AMR(Adaptive Multi-Rate)과 MLT (Modulated Lapped Transform) 벡터 양자화 방법을 이용하여 광대역 음성부호화기를 설계하였다. 제안한 음성부호화 알고리즘은 split-band 구조를 가지고 있으며 16kHz로 샘플링 된 신호를 입력받아 QMF 필터에 의해 두 개의 대역으로 나누어, 각각 8kHz 샘플링 신호로 변환시킨 후 저대역(0Hz-3400Hz)의 신호와 고대역(3400Hz -7000Hz)의 신호로 나누어 각각 부호화한다. 나누어진 두 개의 협대역 음성신호는 AMR(Adaptive Multi-Rate)부호화기와 MLT (Modulated Lapped Transform)벡터 양자화 방법을 사용하여 각각 부호화되어 전송된다. 수신단에서는 각 대역을 AMR과 IMLT(Inverse MLT) 벡터 양자화 방법으로 역부호화하여 음성신호를 합성한다. 제안한 음성부호화기는 20.2kbps에서 12.15kbps까지의 다전송률로 동작된다. 설계된 광대역 음성부호화기는 MOS시험 결과로부터 G.722의 56 kbps 음성이 설계된 코더의 20.2 kbps와 비슷한 음질을 갖음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.462-470
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• 2002

Wideband speech, characterized by a bandwidth of 50∼7000 ㎐, sounds more natural and intelligible, and is less tiring to listen to when compared to narrowband speech characterized by a bandwidth of 300∼3400 ㎐. Wideband speech coders, however, have not been as successful as the narrowband speech coders because of their higher bit rate. In this paper, we propose a new wideband speech coder which combines the European standard of a narrowband speech coder, i.e., GSM-EFR, and a transform coder using the discrete wavelet transform. The proposed wideband speech coder operates as follows input speech is first split into two subbands with equal bandwidth and the two subband signals are coded and decoded by each subband coder. A GSM-EFR is adopted as a lower subband coder and a subband coder with wavelet transformed speech is designed for a upper subband coder. The total bit rate of the proposed coder is 18.9kbps (12.2 kbps for lower band coder and 6.7 kbps for upper band coder), and informal listening test results have shown that the proposed coder has comparable speech quality to that of G.722 with 56 kbps.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.24 no.7
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• pp.395-401
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• 2005

In this paper, the high-band codec for bandwidth scalable wideband speech codec is proposed. The wideband input speech signal is separated into low-band signal and high-band signal, and the low-band signal is encoded by the standard narrow-band speech codec and the high-band signal is encoded by the proposed codec. In the high-band codec. the signal is transformed into frequency domain by MLT on a subframe basis, and MLT coefficients are splitted into magnitude and sign for quantization. The magnitudes of MLT coefficients are arranged into several time-frequency bands and each band is quantized in 2D-DCT domain, where the low-band information is utilized for better performance. The sign of MLT coefficient is quantized based on a priority selection process with the weighting measurement. The objective and subjective performance of wideband speech codec including the proposed high-band codec is measured, and it is confirmed that the proposed codec has better performance than 32kbps G.722.1.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.481-487
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• 2004

In this paper. the structure of bandwidth scalable wideband speech codec and its high-band codec are proposed. In the high-band codec. the signal is divided into frequency bands. and each band is quantized in DCT domain. The DCT coefficients are splitted into magnitude and sign, and each is quantized independently by a specialized method based on its characteristics. In addition. the quantized gain parameter in the low-band codec is utilized in the high-band codec for an enhanced performance. The bandwidth scalable wideband speech codec using G.729E for low-band and the proposed codec for high-band is developed, and it is confirmed that the proposed codec has better subjective performance than 24kbps G.722.1.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.52-57
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• 2000

In this paper, we designed the 16 Kbps speech coder that has compatibility with CS-ACELP algorithm(G.729). The speech signal is sampled at rate of 16 KHz, divided into two narrowband signal by QMF filterbank, and decimated to rate of 8 KHz. The lower-band signal is encoded by CS-ACELP and the upper-band signal is encoded by Adaptive Transform Coding(ATC) algorithm. At the receiver, two band signals are synthesized by decoder of CS-ACELP and ATC, respectively. The reconstructed output is obtained by passing the QMF synthesis bank. The proposed wideband coder is evaluated with ITU-T G.722 coder through the Mean Opinion Score(MOS) test.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.29-34
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• 2001

In this paper, we designed an LSF coefficient quantizer of the wideband speech codec that can produce high quality speech service. For the efficient LSF coefficient quantizer, the interframe correlation was used. Also we separately quantized the LSF coefficients with high and low interframe correlation. Predictive pyramid vector quantizer (PVQ) was used for quantizing the LSF coefficients with high interframe correlation, and PVQ was used for quantizing the LSF coefficients with low interframe correlation. Experiments show that the proposed UF quantizer can quantize LSF information in 40 bits/frame, with an average spectral distortion (SD) of 1 dB and less than 3.87% frames having SD greater than 2 dB.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.755-758
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 AMR(Adaptive Multi-Rate)를 이용하여 광대역 음성부호화기를 설계하였다. 16kHz로 샘플링 된 입력 신호를 QMF 필터에 의해 두 개의 대역으로 나누어, 각각 decimation하여 두 개의 8kHz 샘플링 신호로 변환시킨 후 저대역(0Hz-3400Hz)의 신호와 고대역(3400Hz -7000Hz)의 신호로 나누어 각각 부호화한다. 나누어진 두 개의 협대역 음성신호는 AMR(Adaptive Multi-Rate)과 ATC(Adaptive Transform Coding)을 사용하여 각각 부호화되어 전송된다. 두 대역으로부터 부호화된 정보는 20.2kbps에서 12.75kbps까지의 전송률을 갖고, 수신단에서는 각 대역을 AMR과ATC방법으로 역부호화하여 음성신호를 합성한다. 설계된 광대역 음성부호화기의 성능을 평가하기 위해 ITU-T의 표준안인 G.722를 포함하여 MOS 시험을 하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.5B
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• pp.632-638
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 AMR(Adaptive Multi-Rate)를 이용하여 광대역 음성부호화기를 설계하였다. 16kHz로 샘플링된 입력 신호를 QMF 필터에 의해 두 개의 대역으로 나누어, 각각 decimation하여 두 개의 8kHz 샘플링 신호로 변환시킨 후 저대역(0Hz-3400Hz)의 신호와 고대역(3400Hz∼7000Hz)의 신호로 나누어 각각 부호화한다. 나누어진 두 개의 협대역 음성신호는 AMR(Adaptive Multi-Rate)과 ATC(Adaptive Transform Coding)을 사용하여 각각 부호화되어 전송된다. 두 대역으로부터 부호화된 정보는 20.2kbps에서 12.75kbps까지의 전송률을 갖고, 수신단에서는 각 대역을 AMR과 ATC 방법으로 역부호화하여 음성신호를 합성한다. 설계된 광대역 음성부호화기의 성능을 평가하기 위해 ITU-T의 표준안인 G.722를 포함하여 MOS 시험을 하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.248-254
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• 2005

In this Paper, the structure of a split bandwidth wideband speech coder and its highband coder for tone qualify elevation are Proposed. The lowband and highband by the split bandwidth method are encoded independently applying the G.729E and MLT (Modulated Lapped Transform) residual model. In the highband structure which is encoded by low bit rate of 4kbps, the MLT residual signals are distinguished to voice and unvoice signal . The voice signals are applied to MLT peak picking method by lowband pitch period. Because transformed MLT residual signals are represented by periodic signal that have periodic peak. The unvoice signals are applied to MLT which linear prediction spectral response is added and do vector quantization. Performance for proposed 15.8kbps wideband speech coder was verified through subjective listening test.