• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.48-55
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• 2010

It has a falling off in speech quality, especially when consecutive packet loss occurs, even if a vocoder implemented in the packet network has its own packet loss concealment (PLC) algorithm. PLC algorithm is divided into transmitter and receiver algorithm. Algorithm in the transmitter gives superior quality by additional information. however it is impossible to provide mutual compatibility and it occurs extra delay and transmission rate. The method applied in the receiver does not require additional delay. However, it sets limits to improve the speech quality. In this paper, we propose a new method that puts extra information for PLC in a part of Extension Header Data which is not used in RTP Header. It can solve the problem and obtain enhanced speech quality. There is no extra delay occurred by the proposed algorithm because there is a jitter buffer to adjust network delay in a receiver. Extra information, 16 bits each frame for G.729 PLC, is allocated for MA filter index in LP synthesis, excitation signal, excitation signal gain and residual gain reconstruction. It is because a transmitter sends speech data each 20 ms when it transfers RTP payload. As a result, the proposed method shows superior performance about 13.5%.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.06c
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• pp.214-217
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• 1994

The major drawback in the Code Excited Linear Prediction type vocoders is their large computational requirements. In this paper, a simple method is proposed to reduce the pitch searching time in the pitch filter almost without degradation of quality. On the basis of the observational regularity of the correlation function of speech, only the limited numbers of pitch lags are considered to be an optimum pitch. This is done by skipping the negative envelope side of the correlation function and limiting the maximum number of lags to be considered preliminarily. By doing so, we can reduce the computational time of pitch searching more than 51% with negligible quality degradation. In addition to that, by combining that method with the conventional delta search technique, we can reduce the computational time requirements more than 60% without serious lowering the speech quality in segmental SNR measure compared to the conventional full search method.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.1211-1214
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• 1998

Real-time implementation of Conjugate-Structure Algebraic CELP(CS-ACELP) is presented. ITU-T Study Group(SG) 15 has standardized the CS-ACELP speech coding algorithm as G.729. A real-time implementation of the CS-ACELP is achieved using 16 bit fixed point DSP16210 Digital Signal Processor (DSP) of Lucent Technologies. The speech coder has been implemented in the bit-exact manner using the fixed point CS-ACELP C source which is the part of the G.729 standard. To provide a multi-channel vocoder solution to digital communication system, we try to minimize the complexity(e.g., MIPS, ROM, RAM) of CS-ACELP. Our speech coder shows 15.5 MIPS in performance which enables 4 channel CS-ACELP to be processed with one DSP16210.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.127-130
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• 2000

현재까지 발표된 음성 부호화기 중에서 저전송률에서 양호한 음질을 제공하는 CELP 계열 보코더에 대한연구가 가장 많이 이루어지고 있다. 그 중에서 G.723.1부호화기는 인터넷 폰이나 화상회의 등 상용서비스로 개발되었다. G.723.1 부호화기에서는 음성신호의 선형예측 방법 중 LSP 파라미터를 이용하는 방법이 많이 사용된다. 이것은 LSP 파라미터의 전송형 특징 중 낮은 전송률에서도 왜곡이 적고 선형보간 특성이 뛰어나기 때문이다. 하지만 LPC 계수를 LSP 파라미터로 변환하기 위해서는 많은 계산시간이 소요된다[1]. 본 논문에서는 G.723.1 보코더에서 LSP 변환 시 다항식의 근을 찾는 순서를 음성신호의 LSP 분포 특성에 맞게 조정함으로써 전체 계산시간을 평균 2% 단축하였다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.12
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• pp.2324-2328
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• 2010

In this paper we proposed a new algorithm that can reduce the open-loop pitch estimation time of G.723.1. The time domain cross-correlation method is simple but has long processing time by recursive multiplication. For reduction of processing time, we use the method that compute the cross-correlation by multiplying the Fourier value of speech by it's complex conjugate. Also, we can reduce the processing time by omitting the bit-reversing of FFT and IFFT for time-frequency domain transform. As a result, the processing time of improved hybrid domain cross-correlation algorithm is reduced by 67.37% of conventional time domain cross-correlation.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2475-2478
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• 2003

CELP계열의 부호화기인 G.723.1 5.3kbps ACELP를 기반으로 하여 음질을 유지하면서 전송률을 낮출 수 있는 새로운 부호화 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 적용한 부호화 방법은 음성 합성시 파라미터로 사용되는 지속시간 변경에 의해 CELP형 보코더의 전송률을 감소하고자 한다. 먼저 음성을 보코더 입력단에 입력하기 전 지속시간을 FFT 변환 특성을 이용해 음색의 변경 없이 지속시간을 줄임으써 계산시간을 줄이고 진폭과 위상 각각 1/2ⁿ배의 interpolation과 Decimation을 수행하여 부호화한다. 이렇게 부호화된 데이터는 G.723.1 복호화를 거치고, 다시 FFT point의 1/2ⁿ배 point로 IFFT과정을 수행함으로써 스팩트럼의 변경 없이 지속시간을 변경하여 원 음성을 합성하게 된다. G.723.1 보코더를 통과한 후 파형을 복원 실험한 결과 기존의 5.3kbps ACELP보다 46％정도 감소하였다.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.7-10
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• 2000

본 논문은 이동통신상에서 송신측의 송신 채널 에러정보를 수신측에서 송신측으로 전달하는 음성패킷을 이용하여 송신측에 알려주어 압축과정에 이용하게 할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. ACELP(Algebraic CELP)구조 방식을 가지고 있는 음성압축기들 중 G.729을 사용하며 음성 패킷정보 중 Pitch Delay와 Fixed Codebook를 이용하여 전송음성 패킷안에 상대방의 송신 채널정보를 싣는다. 수신측에서 받은 패킷이 Erasure로 판단되었을 때 패킷정보들 중 Fixed Codebook Index를 만들게 되는 4개의 Optimal 펄스 중 2개의 펄스만 사용하며 나머지 2개의 펄스는 약속된 임의의 위치에 위치시킨 후 송신측에 전송시킨다. 상대방에서 약속에 맞는 위치의 펄스를 보내왔을 때를 체크함으로써 자신의 송신채널 상태를 알 수 있게 된다 송신채널에$5\%$ Erasure 채널 에러가 발생했을 때 채널정보를 가진 패킷의 음질은 약 0.1dB 정도 떨어지게 된다. 하지만 음성압축 전송 시 송신채널의 정보를 이용하여 무선채널에러에 강하게 할 수 있다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.56-63
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• 1996

In this paper, the phisical layer of 4.3008 Mcps wideband CDMA which is proposed as the standard of personal communication service system is introduced. It is designed to fit 5 MHz bandwidth by using $28{\times}2^n$ Hadamard code. 13 kbps CELP vocoder is chosen as the main one and 32 kbps ADPCM can be applied. In the reverse link, the burst pilot scheme is proposed and produces the increase of capacity compared with the continuous pilot method. In order to maintain the service quality when the signaling data is increased, the information data and signaling data are time-multiplexed and making use of signaling activity brings the increase of capacity. QPSK data and QPSK spreading, variable frame size, and code pair assignment for high data rate are accomplished and then information data is transmited up to 64 kbps. It is expected that the proposed techiniques here are used in the FPLMTS.

• 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%.