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A Scalable CELP/Transform Coder for Low Bit Rate Speech and Audio Coding

Authors: Fuchs, Guillaume; Lefebvre, Roch

AES Convention 120 · Paper 6802 · May 2006

Abstract

With the increase of channel capacity in communication systems, several emerging applications require an acceptable reproduction quality for speech signals at low bit-rates, and a superior quality for any kinds of audio inputs when more bandwidth is available. To meet this requirement, we propose a new scalable audio coding algorithm. The proposed coder consists of a wideband speech coder embedded in a multi-layer transform coding algorithm. The transform coefficients are quantized using a scalable lattice vector quantization. The global system exhibits low computational complexity and memory requirements, and leads to a very fine grained scalability. The new coding algorithm is suitable for communications over heterogeneous networks with no or uneven guarantee on the quality of service (QoS) for packet delivery.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 120
AES Convention
120
Paper number
6802
Publication date
May 6, 2006
Session subject
Low Bit-Rate Audio Coding
Affiliation
University of Sherbrooke (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper