Fixed bit rate speech encoder/decoder

Details Fixed bit rate speech encoder/decoder Fixed bit rate speech encoder/decoder

1995-04-03

1997-09-02

MacDonald, Allen R.

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

For storage or transmission

704230, G10L 704

Patent

active

056640579

ABSTRACT:
The invention features a method of transmitting a digital signal which includes frames of frequency coefficients arranged in bands. For each frame, the method includes generating a spectral estimate of the energy in each of the bands, a class value that corresponds to the energy in a band relative to the average energy in the other bands for each of the bands, and a step size for each of the frequency coefficients based on the spectral estimate for the corresponding band. The step size varies with the energy in the band so that the step size for a frequency coefficient in a band having relatively high energy is larger than the step size for a frequency component in a band having relatively low energy. The frequency coefficients are then quantized, based on the relationship between the value of the frequency coefficient, the corresponding class value, and the corresponding step size, to produce quantized frequency coefficients. These quantized frequency coefficients are then encoded based on the class values to produce encoded quantized frequency coefficients. Thereafter, the class values are iteratively modified and the steps of generating class values and step sizes and quantizing and encoding the frequency coefficients are repeated until the number of bits that represent the encoded quantized frequency coefficients is optimized. Finally, the encoded quantized frequency coefficients are transmitted.

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