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Advances to a Frequency-Domain Parametric Coder of Wideband Speech

Authors: Ferreira, Aníbal; Sinha, Deepen

AES Convention 140 · Paper 9509 · May 2016

Abstract

In recent years, tools in perceptual coding of high-quality audio have been tailored to capture highly detailed information regarding signal components so that they gained an intrinsic ability to represent audio parametrically. In a recent paper we described a first validation model to such an approach applied to parametric coding of wideband speech. In this paper we describe specific advances to such an approach that improve coding efficiency and signal quality. A special focus is devoted to the fact that transmission to the decoder of any phase information is avoided, and that direct synthesis in the time-domain of the periodic content of speech is allowed in order to cope with fast F0 changes. A few examples of signal coding and transformation illustrate the impact of those improvements.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 140
AES Convention
140
Paper number
9509
Publication date
May 6, 2016
Session subject
Audio Equipment, Audio Formats, and Audio Signal Processing
Affiliation
University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; ATC Labs, Newark, NJ, USA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper