Title
Fast Recovery for a CELP-Like Speech Codec After a Frame Erasure
Abstract
The adaptive codebook used in code-excited linear prediction (CELP)-like speech codecs is very effective for modeling the quasi-periodic component of the excitation signal but, unfortunately, introduces a strong interframe dependency that renders the decoder vulnerable to frame erasures. For voiced speech, the error affects not only the erased frame but also all the subsequent frames. In this paper, a technique to improve the recovery after a frame erasure is proposed. The technique consists in a constrained excitation search at the encoder and a resynchronization procedure at the decoder. The constraint aims at reducing the contribution of the adaptive codebook by making the innovation codebook partially model the pitch excitation. Further, for highly voiced frames, the pitch-related information contained in the innovation excitation is exploited at the decoder to speed up the resynchronization of the adaptive codebook after a frame erasure. When applied to the adaptive multirate wideband (AMR-WB) codec, the method brings a significant improvement in the case of frame erasures, at the cost of a minor quality loss compared to the standard codec at the same bit rate. The method does not need additional delay and has the advantage of maintaining full interoperability between the standard codec and its modified version.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/TASL.2007.907332
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
fast recovery,innovation codebook,excitation search,adaptive multirate wideband,pitch excitation,innovation excitation,excitation signal,standard codec,adaptive codebook,frame erasure,subsequent frame,celp-like speech codec,speech coding,error propagation,encoding,decoding,code excited linear prediction,codecs
Speech processing,Speech coding,Code-excited linear prediction,Computer science,Speech recognition,Encoder,Inter frame,Codec,Codebook,Erasure
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
8
1558-7916
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.66
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. Chibani1100.66
Lefebvre, R.29318.55
P. Gournay3100.66