• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.08a
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• pp.136-141
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• 1998

In order to enhance the performance of a CELP coder at low bit rates, it would be necessary to make the CELP excitation have the peaky pulse characteristic. In this paper we introduce an excitation signal with peaky pulse characteristic. It is obtained by using a two-tap pitch predictor. Samples of the signal have different gains according to their amplitudes by the predictor. In voiced sound the signal has the desirable peaky pulse characteristic, and its periodicity is well reproduced. Particularly, peaky pulses at voiced onset and a burst of plosive sound are clearly reconstructed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.8B
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• pp.1070-1077
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• 2001

본 논문은 여러 배경잡음에서 높은 성능을 나타내는 8 kbps CS-ACELP 부호화기의 음질개선방법에 관한 것이다. 파형정합방법을 이용하는 기존의 CELP 부호화기가 순수한 음성신호에 대해서는 우수한 음질을 제공하지만, 배경잡음에 대해서는 큰 음질저하를 가져온다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 음성신호뿐만 아니라 이러한 배경잡음에 대해서도 우수한 음질을 달성하는 에너지정합방법을 소개한다. 이 방법은 부가적인 비트를 요구하지 않으면서 효과적으로 음질을 개선한다. 실험 결과, 객관적 평가에서는 MSEGSNR이 0.01∼1.1dB 증가하였고, 주관적 평가에서는 MOS 점수가 평균 0.2, 최대 0.5점까지 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 PPS 알고리즘을 적용한 부호화기의 음질이 최대 12%까지 향상되는 것으로 확인되었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.12A
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• pp.2027-2035
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• 2001

In this paper, we present an audio stream delivery using the AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) coder that was adopted by ETSI and 3GPP as a standard vocoder for next generation IMT-2000 service in which includes combined sender (FEC) and receiver reconstruction technique in the Internet. By use of the media-specific FEC scheme, the possibility to recover lost packets can be much increased due to the addition of repair data to a main data stream, by which the contents of lost packets can be recovered. The AMR codec is based on the code-excited linear predictive (CELP) coding model. So we use a frame erasure concealment for CELP-based coders. The proposed scheme is evaluated with ITU-T G.729 (CS-ACELP) coder and AMR - 12.2 kbit/s through the SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) and the MOS (Mean Opinion Score) test. The proposed scheme provides 1.1 higher in Mean Opinion Score value and 5.61 dB higher than AMR - 12.2 kbit/s in terms of SNR in 10% packet loss, and maintains the communicab1e quality speech at frame erasure rates lop to 20%.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.7C
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• pp.962-970
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• 2004

This paper presents an efficient implementation of the 2.4 kbps EHSX(Enhanced Harmonic Stochastic Excitation) speech coder on a TMS320C6701$^{TM}$ floating-point digital signal processor. The EHSX speech codec is based on a harmonic and CELP(Code Excited Linear Prediction) modeling of the excitation signal respectively according to the frame characteristic such as a voiced speech and an unvoiced speech. In this paper, we represent the optimization methods to reduce the complexity for real-time implementation. The complexity in the filtering of a CELP algorithm that is the main part for the EHSX algorithm complexity can be reduced by converting program using floating-point variable to program using fixed-point variable. We also present the efficient optimization methods including the code allocation considering a DSP architecture and the low complexity algorithm of harmonic/pitch search in encoder part. Finally, we obtained the subjective quality of MOS 3.28 from speech quality test using the PESQ(perceptual evaluation of speech quality), ITU-T Recommendation P.862 and could get a goal of realtime operation of the EHSX codec.c.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.2E
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• pp.51-57
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• 1994

Code Excited Linear Prediction(CELP) vocoder exhibits good performance at data rates below 4.8 kbps. The major drawback to CELP type coders is their large amount of computation. In this paper, we propose a new pitch search method that preserves the quality of the CELP vocoder with reduced complexity. The basic idea is to restrict the pitch searching range by estimating the preliminary pitches. Applying the proposed method to the CELP vocoder, we can get approximately 87% complexity reduction in the pitch search.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06d
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• pp.106-109
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• 2000

There have been proposed two types of low bit rate vocoder upto now : One is MBE type using the spectrum modeling and another is CELP type using the hybrid coding method. CELP type vocoder has mainly studied between them. Specially, much of intensity is concentrated in CELP vocoder due to the emergence of Internet Phone and PCS in a domestic. In order to improve the speech quality in CELP vocoder, in this paper, we proposed a new spectrum analysis algorithm with variable window, In CELP vocoder, the spectrum of the synthesised speech signal is distorted because the fixed size windows is used for spectrum analysis. So we have measured the spectral leakage and in order to minimize the spectral leakage have adjusted the window size. Applying this method G.723.1 ACELP, we can get SD(Spectral Distortion) reduction 0.084(dB), residual energy reduction 6.3% and MOS(Mean Opinion Score) improvement 0.1.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.265-268
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• 2010

There have been proposed two types of low bit rate vocoder upto now : One is MBE type using the spectrum modeling and another is CELP type using the hybrid coding method. CELP type vocoder has mainly studied between them. Specially, much of intensity is concentrated in CELP vocoder due to the emergence of Internet Phone and PCS in a domestic. In order to improve the speech quality in CELP vocoder, in this paper, we proposed a new spectrum analysis algorithm with variable window. In CELP vocoder, the spectrum of the synthesised speech signal is distorted because the fixed size windows is used for spectrum analysis. So we have measured the spectral leakage and in order to minimize the spectral leakage have adjusted the window size. Applying this method G.723.1 ACELP, we can get SD(Spectral Distortion) reduction 0.084(dB), residual energy reduction 6.3% and MOS(Mean Opinion Score) improvement 0.1.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.49-52
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• 1999

4.8kbps 내외의 전송률에서 양호한 음질을 제공하는 CELP 계열 음성 부호화기 중에서 인터넷 폰 및 화상회의를 목적으로 개발된 G.723.1은 5.3kbps ACELP(Algebraic CELP)와 6.3kbps MP-MLQ(Multi-Pulse Maximum Likelihood Quantization) 두 개의 부호화기를 포함하고 있다[1]. 이 중 MP-MLQ는 고정 코드북 검색 시 많은 계산량으로 인해 실시간 구현에 어려움이 따르고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위해 본 논문에서는 유/무성음을 분리한 후 grid bit를 먼저 결정하여 코드북을 검색하는 방법 제안한다. LSP 파라미터의 분포특성을 이용하여 유/무성음을 분리한 후 무성음에 대해서는 스펙트럼 정보만 전송하고 유성음에 대해서만 코드북 검색을 수행한다. 그리고 코드북 검색 시 Grid bit를 먼저 결정하여 수행하였다. Grid bit는 짝/홀수번째 전체 펄스를 이용하여 합성한 합성음과 DC 성분이 제거된 원음과의 비교를 통하여 결정하였다. 실험 결과 전체 처리시간은 평균적으로 약 $20.55\%$ 감소하였으며 주관적 음질평가 결과 음질 열하는 거의 발생하지 않았다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.119-122
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• 2004

G.723.1은 저 전송률 환경에서 고 음질을 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 NAMDF함수를 적용하여 델타 피치 검색과정의 계산량을 줄여 부호화기의 전체 계산량을 감소시키는 방법을 제안하였다. 기존의 피치 검출 알고리즘에서 피치 검출을 위해 사용하고 있는 자기상관함수는 곱셈 연산에서 발생하는 bit의 dynamic range가 커서 나눗셈 연산에서도 과도한 연산량을 필요로 한다. 따라서, 이러한 계산량의 감소를 위해 기존의 자기상관함수 대신 계산량을 감소하기 위하여 NAMDF 방법을 적용하였고 추가된 skipping 기법을 사용하였다. 계산량 감소율 측면에서는 약 $64\%$의 감소율을 보였고 기존의 방법과 제안한 방법간의 피치 pitch contour은 원음성의 피치 contour와 유사하였고, 음질 평가에서도 기존의 G.723.1 부호화기 합성음과 유사한 길과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.33-40
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• 1994

Code Excited Linear Prediction(CELP) speech coders exhibit good performance at data rates below 4.8 kbps. This major drawback of CELP type coders is required much computation. In this paper, we propose a new pitch search method that preserves the quality of the CELP vocoder with reducing complexity. In the pitch searching, we detect the segments of high correlation by a simple preprocessing, and then carry out the pitch searching only for the segments obtained by the preprocessing. By using the proposed method, we can get approximately $77\%$ complexity reduction in the pitch search.