• 한국음향학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.333-339
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 벡터 양자화기와 피라미드 벡터 양자화기를 직렬로 결합하여 16차 벡터 소스에 대한 vector quantizer-pyramid vector quantizer (VQ-PVQ)를 개발하였으며, 예측 구조와 세이프티-넷 (safety-net) 개념을 결합시켜 광대역 음성 부호화기용 LPC 계수 양자화 기를 설계하였다. 본 양자화기의 성능은 AMR-WB(ITRT-T G.722.2)의 LPC양자화기 성능과 비교하였는데, 스펙트럼 왜곡 및 메모리 요구량에서 상당한 이득을 얻었다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제54호
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• pp.27-43
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• 2005

Existing standard speech coders can provide speech communication of high quality while they degrade the performance of speech recognition systems that use the reconstructed speech by the coders. The main cause of the degradation is that the spectral envelope parameters in speech coding are optimized to speech quality rather than to the performance of speech recognition. For example, mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) is generally known to provide better speech recognition performance than linear prediction coefficient (LPC) that is a typical parameter set in speech coding. In this paper, we propose a speech coder using MFCC instead of LPC to improve the performance of a server-based speech recognition system in network environments. However, the main drawback of using MFCC is to develop the efficient MFCC quantization with a low-bit rate. First, we explore the interframe correlation of MFCCs, which results in the predictive quantization of MFCC. Second, a safety-net scheme is proposed to make the MFCC-based speech coder robust to channel error. As a result, we propose a 8.7 kbps MFCC-based CELP coder. It is shown from a PESQ test that the proposed speech coder has a comparable speech quality to 8 kbps G.729 while it is shown that the performance of speech recognition using the proposed speech coder is better than that using G.729.