• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.35-47
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• 2001

This paper describes an efficient harmonic-CELP speech coder by taking advantages of harmonic and CELP coders into account. According to frame voicing decision, the proposed harmonic-CELP coder adopts the RP-VSELP coder as a fast CELP in case of an unvoiced frame, or an improved harmonic coder in case of a voiced frame. The proposed coder has main features as follows: simple pitch detection, fast harmonic estimation, variable dimension harmonic vector quantization, perceptual weighting reflecting frequency resolution, fast harmonic synthesis, naturalness control using band voicing, and multi-mode. These features make the proposed coder require very low complexity, compared with HVXC coder To demonstrate the performance of the proposed coder, a 2.4 kbps coder has been implemented and compared with reference coders. From results of informal listening tests, the proposed coder showed good quality while requiring low delay and complexity.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.576-582
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• 2001

The Multi-Band Excitation(MBE) speech coder uses a different approach for the representation of the excitation signal. It replaces the frame-based single voiced/unvoiced classification of a classical speech coder with a set of such decision over harmonic intervals in the frequency domain. This enables each speech segment to be a mixture of voiced and unvoiced, and improves the synthetic speech quality by reducing decision errors that might occur on the frame-based single voiced and unvoiced decision process when input speech is degraded with noise. The IMBE-LP, improved version of MBE with linear prediction, represents the spectral information of MBE model with linear prediction coefficients to obtain low bit rate of 2.4 kbps. In this Paper, we proposed a variable rate IMBE-LP vocoder that has lower bit rate than IMBE-LP without degrading the synthetic speech quality. To determine the LP order, it uses the spectral band information of the MBE model that has something to do with he input speech's characteristics. Experimental results are riven with our findings and discussions.

• 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.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.21-29
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• 2006

In this Paper a split bandwidth wideband speech coder and its highband coding method are Proposed. The coder uses a split-band approach. where the wideband input speech signal is split into two equal frequency bands from 0-4kHz and 4-8kHz. The lowband and the highband are coded respectively by the 11.8kb/s G.729 Annex E and the proposed coding method. After the LPC analysis, the highband is divided by two modes according to the properties of signals. In stationary mode. the highband signals are compressed by the mixture excitation model; CELP algorithm and W (Matching Pursuit) algorithm. The others are coded by the only CELP algorithm. We compare the performance of the new wideband speech coder with that of G.722 48kbps SB-ADPCM and G.722.2 12.85kbps in a subjective method. The simulation results show that the Performance of the proposed wideband speech coder has better than that of 48kbps G.722 and no better than that of 12.85kbps G.722.2.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.3A
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• pp.196-204
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• 2002

The Sinusoidal Transform Coding(STC) is a vocoding scheme based on a sinusoidal model of a speech signal. The low bit-rate speech coding based on sinusoidal model is a method that models and synthesizes speech with fundamental frequency and its harmonic elements, spectral envelope and phase in the frequency region. In this paper, we propose the 2.4kbps low-rate speech coding algorithm using the sinusoidal model of a speech signal. In the proposed coder, the pitch frequency is estimated by choosing the frequency that makes least mean squared error between synthetic speech with all spectrum peaks and speech synthesized with chosen frequency and its harmonics. The spectral envelope is estimated using SEEVOC(Spectral Envelope Estimation VOCoder) algorithm and the discrete all-pole model. The phase information is obtained using the time of pitch pulse occurrence, i.e., the onset time, as well as the phase of the vocal tract system. Experimental results show that the synthetic speech preserves both the formant and phase information of the original speech very well. The performance of the coder has been evaluated in terms of the MOS test based on informal listening tests, and it achieved over the MOS score of 3.1.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.6B
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• pp.760-766
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 차량내 핸즈프리 전화통신을 위한 음향 반향 및 배경 잡음 제거기를 제안한다. 제안한 시스템은 새로운 잔여 반향 제거 기법과 실시간 구현에 적합한 동시통화 검출기를 포함한다. 잔여 반향 제거에서는 근단화자가 없는 구간에 대하여 선형 예측기를 이용하여 잔여 반향 신호의 인접 샘플간의 상관도를 제거하여 잡음 제거기의 입력으로 사용한다. 잔여 반향 신호의 음성특성을 제거함으로써 잡음 제거기를 이용하여 배경 잡음과 더불어 잔여 반향의 전력을 효과적으로 줄일 수 있다. 제안된 시스템에서는 상용 저전송률 음성부호화기와의 결합을 고려하여 IS-127(EVRC)에 포함되어 있는 잡음 제거기를 사용하였다. 90 km/h로 정속 주행하는 차내의 핸즈프리 환경에서 제안된 시스템은 30 dB이상의 간섭신호 제거 성능을 보였다. 제안된 시스템은 16비트 고정 소수점 연산을 하는 저가의 DSP를 이용하여 실시간 구현되었다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.285-288
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• 1998

G.723.1은 저 전송률 환경에서 고음질을 제공하여 주고 있으나 CELP형 부호화기가 갖는 합성에 의한 분석(analysis by synthesis) 방식의 구조로 인해 많은 처리 시간과 계산량을 요구하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 G.723.1에 대해 skipping 기법을 이용하여 피치 검색과정이 계산량을 줄여 부호화기의 전체 처리 시간을 감소시키는 방법을 제안하였다. 예측 피치를 찾기 위한 개회로 피치 예측(open loop pitch estimation) 과정에서 계산량을 줄이기 위해 skipping 기법을 사용하였다. 피치 예측 과정시 상관관계를 파형은 양과 음의 파형이 교대로 나타나는 특징을 가지고 있기 때문에 계산시 음의 파형을 생략하는 방법을 사용하였다. 실제 음성시료에 대해 제안한 피치 검색법을 적용하였을 때 부호화시 평균 처리시간은 약 10%정도 감소하였으며 기존 G.723.1과 제안한 방법을 적용한 G.723.1의 음질 비교를 위하여 MOS 평가를 했을 때 기존의 방법이 평균 3.76인데 비해 제안한 방법의 평균 MOS는 3.73으로 주관적인 음질 저하는 거의 나타나지 않았다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.1122-1127
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• 2007

We propose the complexity reduction algorithm of real root method that is mainly used in the Vocoder. The real root method is that if polynomial equations have the real roots, we are able to find those and transform them into LSP(Line Spectrum Pairs). However, this method takes much time to compute, because the root searching is processed sequentially in frequency region. The important characteristic of LSP is that most of coefficients are occurred in specific frequency region. So, the searching frequency region is ordered and adjusted by each coefficient's distribution in this paper. Transformation time can be reduced by proposed algorithm than the sequential searching method in frequency region. When we compare this proposed method with the conventional real root method, the experimental result is that the searching time was reduced about 48% in average.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.26-34
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a 4kbps speech coder that combines the harmonic vector excitation coding with time-separated transition coding. The harmonic vector excitation coding uses the harmonic excitation coding in the voiced frame and uses the vector excitation coding with the structure of analysis-by-synthesis in the unvoiced frame, respectively. But two mode coding method is not effective for transition frame mixed in voiced and unvoiced signal and a new method beyond using unvoiced/voiced mode coding is needed. Thus, we designed a time-separated transition coding method for transition frame in which a voiced/unvoiced decision algorithm separates unvoiced and voiced duration in a frame, and harmonic-harmonic excitation coding and vector-harmonic excitation coding method is selectively used depending on the previous frame U/V decision. In the decoder, the voiced excitation signals are generated efficiently through the inverse FFT of harmonic magnitudes and the unvoiced excitation signals are made by the inverse vector quantization. The reconstructed speech signal are synthesized by the Overlap/Add method.