• 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.

• 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.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.259-269
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new excitation enhancement technique to improve the speech quality of low bit-rate code-excited linear prediction (CELP) coders. The proposed technique is based on a harmonic model and it is employed only in the decoding process of speech coders without any additional bits. We develop the procedure of harmonic model parameter estimation and harmonic generation, and apply this technique to a current state-of-the-art low bit rate speech coder, ITU-T G.729 Annex D. Also, its performance is measured by using the ITU-T P.862 PESQ score and compared to those of the phase dispersion filter and the long-term postfilter applied to the decoded excitation. It is shown that the proposed excitation enhancement technique can improve the quality of decoded speech and provide better quality for male speech than other techniques.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1995.06a
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• pp.146-149
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• 1995

This paper proposes a SM-CELP speech coder which applies different excitation signal according to the characteristic of speech segment at bit-rate below 4 kbps. Speech signal is divided with 2 modes such as stationary voice and etc. using the parameters of average energy of the short-time speech and the residual signal after long term prediction. Structured multi-pulse method is used for the excitation of mode-A and gaussian or pulse-like codebook for mode-B. 4.8kbps DoD-CELP are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed coder. As a result, the propose method shows 1~2 dB higher segmental signal to noise ratio and better subjectional quality without increasing the computational amount.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.1430-1437
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• 1996

A low delay code excited linear predictive speech coder(LD-CELP) at bit rates under 8kbps is considered. We try to improve the perfomance of speech coder with frame type dependent modification of synthesis filter. We first classify frames into 3 groups: voiced, unvoiced and onset. For voicedand unvoiced frame, the spectral envelope of the synthesis filter is adapted to the phonetic characteristics. For transition frame from unvoiced to voiced, the synthesis filter which has been interpolated with the bias filter is used. The proposed vocoder produced more clear sound with similar delay level than other pre-existing LD-CELP vocoders.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.289-292
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 CELP 음성 부호화기의 성능을 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 최적 코드북 검색 과정에서 추가적인 알고리듬의 지연 없이 미래 정보를 이용하고 두 인접한 코드북 부프레임 사이의 동시 최적화를 통하여 음성 부호화기의 성능을 향상시킨다. 또한, 제안된 코드북 검색 과정의 계산량을 조절하기 위한 방법도 제공된다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 검증하기 위하여 IS-96A QCELP 음성 부호화기를 이용하여 합성음의 스펙트럼과 Segmental SNR로 성능을 측정하는 모의실험을 실시하였으며, 제안된 방법을 적용한 QCELP 음성 부호화기가 기존의 QCELP에 비하여 향상된 성능을 보여주었다.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.06c
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• pp.179-182
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• 1994

본 논문에서는 4.8kbps 이하의 낮은 전송률에서 Code-Ecited Linear Prediction 방법에 MBE 방법을 도입하여 장구간 예측 성능을 향상시키는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법에서는 기존의 CELP 방법으로 장구간 예측을 한 후에도 여전히 남아 있는 주기적 성분들을 다시 한번 다대역 장구간 예측을 한다. 이 때 전체 주파수 영역을 기본 주파수의 하모닉 간격으로 주파수 분할하였고, 주기적 다대역 여기 신호를 각 대역 내의 하모닉들에서 여기 신호 스펙트럼과 근사한 크기를 갖는 정현파의 합으로 표현함으로써 실제 여기 신호의 특성을 잘 반영하도록 하였다. 음질 평가의 비교 기준 대상으로 4.8 kbps DoD CELP를 선정하여 주관적 음질평가를 실시한 결과 4.8 kbps DoD CELP보다 우수한 성능을 보임을 알 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.06a
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• pp.1104-1111
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• 1994

Code Excited Linear Prediction(CELP) as a speech coder 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.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.9-16
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 낮은 비트율 CELP 음성 부호화기의 장구간 예측기의 성능 향상 방 법을 제안한다. 비트율을 낮추기 위해서는 분석 구간의 길이가 길어져야하며 이에 따라 장 구간 예측기의 성능이 저하되어 장구간 예측 후에도 준 주기성 성분이 상당량 존재하므로 백색 잡음으로 구성된 통계 코드북만으로는 이를 모델링하기 어려워진다. 제안 방법에서는 다중 대역 필터와 다중 펄스열을 이용하여 한 번 더 필터링(이차 장구간 예측)함으로써 장 구간 예측 후의 신호가 통계 코드북에 적합한 백색 잡음 형태로 되도록 모델링한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 4.8kbps 비트율로 양자화한 후, 기존에 제안된 같은 전송률의 MBCELP와 DoD-CELP와 비교하였다. 실험 결과 제안된 방법이 기존 부호화기들에 비해 주/객관적인 음질에서 우수한 성능을 보여준다.