• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.1E
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• pp.22-29
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• 1995

Code excited Linear Prediction(CELP) vocoder exhibits good performance at data rates below 4.8 kbps. The major drawback of CELP type coders is their large amount of computation. In this paper, we propose a new pitch searching method that preseves the quality of the CELP vodocer reducing computational complexity. The basic idea is that pregrasps preliminary pitches about signal and performs pitch search only about the preliminary pitches. Applying the proposed method to the CELP vocoder, we can reduce complexity about 90% in th pitch search.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.175-179
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• 2000

음성의 발성속도가 빠른 경우에는 발성속도가 느린 경우보다 적은 정보만으로도 부호화가 가능하다 음성의 발성속도가 빠른 경우에는 청취시 낮은 주파수 대역의 정보가 높은 주파수대역의 정보보다 중요하게 된다. 음성 부호화 기술은 전송를과 복잡도를 줄이고 음질을 향상시키는 방향으로 진행되고 있다. 현재 상용화되고 있는 CELP형 보코더는 낮은 전송를에 비해 우수한 음질을 제공하지만, 기존 방식은 음성의 발성속도에 대해서 처리를 달리하지 않고 사용하고 있다. 음성의 발성속도를 측정하여 발성속도가 빠를 경우에, 발성속도가 느린 경우보다 낮은 대역의 정보만 전송한다면 전송율을 감소시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 CELP 부호화기의 전송률 감소를 위해 발성속도를 측정하는 방법을 제안한다. LSP 파라미터가 가지고 있는 정보로 음소의 변화율을 측정하였다. 각각 다른 발성속도를 갖는 음성시료에 대하여 음소 변화율을 구한 결과 발성속도가 다른 경우, 뚜렷하게 다른 음소 변화율을 갖는 것을 알 수 있었고. 빠르게 발성한 경우가 느리게 발성한 경우보다 42.8％가 높게 나왔다.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.175-178
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• 2002

Most existing telephone networks transmit narrowband speech witch has been bandlimited below 4 kHz. Compared with wideband speech up to 8 kHz, narrowband speech shows reduced intelligibility and a muffled quality. Bandwidth extension is a technique to generate wideband speech by reconstructing 4-8 kHz highband speech without any additional information. This paper presents experimental results of the bandwidth extension adopted for 4800 bps CELP speech coder. In this experiment, we examine various methods for reconstruction of wideband spectrum and excitation signal, compare and analyze their performance by performing the subjective preference test and measuring the cepstral distortion.

• MALSORI
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• no.49
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• pp.63-75
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• 2004

Most existing telephone speech transmitted in current public networks is band-limited to 0.3-3.4 kHz. Compared with wideband speech(0-8 kHz), the narrowband speech lacks low-band (0-0.3 kHz) and high-band(3.4-8 kHz) components of sound. As a result, the speech is characterized by the reduced intelligibility and a muffled quality, and degraded speaker identification. Bandwidth extension is a technique to provide wideband speech quality, which means reconstruction of low-band and high-band components without any additional transmitted information. Our new approach considers to exploit harmonic synthesis method for reconstruction of low-band speech over the CELP coded speech. A spectral distortion measurement and listening test are introduced to assess the proposed method, and the improvement of synthesized speech quality was verified.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.365-374
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• 1996

Finite wordlength effects of the FS-1016 CELP(Code Excite Linear Prediction) vocoder algorithm) is analyzed, and a block floating-Point implementation method is employed to improve the fixed-point performance. An efficient run-time integer wordlength estimation algorithm is developed, and the overall system performance. An efficient run-time integer wordlength estimation algorithm is developed, and the overall system performance is verified in real-time using a TMS320C50 emulation board. Autoscaler software that conducts simulation-based automatic scaling to provide a floating-point like programming environment is used for this application development.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.349-350
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• 2006

This paper presents very low bit rate speech coder, ZFE-CELP(ZINC Function Excitation-Code Excited Linear Prediction). The ZFE-CELP speech codec is based on a ZINC function and CELP modeling of the excitation signal respectively according to the frame characteristic such as a voiced speech and an unvoiced speech. And this paper suggest strategies to improve the speech quality of the very low bit rate speech coder.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.483-486
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• 2009

인터넷폰과 화상회의를 위해 개발되어진 G.723.1 음성부호화기는 5.3kbps ACELP와 6.3kbps MP-MLQ 이중 전송률로 구성된다. 본 논문에서는 CELP 계열 음성부호화기의 음질 개선을 위해 스펙트럼 누설을 최소화할 수 있는 가변 윈도우를 이용한 새로운 스펙트럼 분석 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘을 ACELP에 적용한 실험결과에서 스펙트럼 왜곡은 약 0.1dB 정도 감소하였고, 잔차 에너지는 7% 정도 감소하였으며 주관적 음질평가 결과는 0.3 정도 개선되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.33B no.2
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• pp.88-94
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• 1996

In this paper, we present a half rate speech coder using trellis excitation. The coder combines code-excited linear prediction (CELP) system and trellis quantization method using the codebook expansion, and it produces higher speech quality than the typical CELP coder for the same transmission rate. A subjective comparison with 3~8 bit .$\mu$-law PCM indicates that the half rate coder provides speech quality between 5-bit and 6-bit $\mu$-law PCM .

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.717-726
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• 2003

This paper presents the methods that design the Wavelet-based pitch detector for 2,4 kbps Harmonic-CELP Coder, and that achieve the effective waveform interpolation by decision window shape of the transition region, Waveform interpolation coder operates by encoding one pitch-period-sized segment, a prototype segment, of speech for each frame, generate the smooth waveform interpolation between the prototype segments for voiced frame, But, harmonic synthesis of the prototype waveforms between previous frame and current frame occur not only waveform errors but also discontinuity at frame boundary on that case of pitch halving or doubling, In addtion, in transition region since waveform interpolation coder synthesizes the excitation waveform by using overlap-add with triangularity window, therefore, Harmonic-CELP fail to model the instantaneous increasing speech and synthesis waveform linearly increases, First of all, in order to detect the precise pitch period, we use the hybrid 1st pitch detector, and increse the precision by using 2nd ACF-pitch detector, Next, in order to modify excitation window, we detect the onset, offset of frame by GCI, As the result, pitch doubling is removed and pitch error rate is decreased 5.4% in comparison with ACF, and is decreased 2,66% in comparison with wavelet detector, MOS test improve 0.13 at transition region.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.87-92
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• 2007

The conventional CELP(code excited linear prediction) type vocoder has no V/UV(voiced/unvoiced) classifier. So, the unvoiced speech is processed like the voiced speech. In this paper, to reduce the bit rate, we propose a new V/UV decision algorithm minimized error rate and preprocessing computation. This V/UV classifier use the LSP(line spectrum pair) parameter which is acquired spectrum analysis process in CELP vocoders. Applying this method to the 5.3kbps ACELP(algebraic code excited linear prediction) in the G.723.1, we can get the transmission bits rate reduction of 6% approximately without degradation of speech quality.