| Autor: |
Crochiere, R. E., Goodman, D. J., Rabiner, L. R., Sambur, M. R. |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; 1977, Vol. 61 Issue S1, pS69-S69, 1p |
| Abstrakt: |
The performance of a tandem connection of narrow-band and wide-band speech communication systems is evaluated. Specifically, the narrow-band system consists of a conventional LPC vocoder operating at a bit rate of 2.4 Kb/sec and the wideband system consists of a CVSD (continuously variable slope delta modulator) operating at a bit rate of 16 Kb/sec. This paper describes the properties of the narrowband to wideband link. The SNR (signal-to-quantizing noise ratio) of the CVSD coder is analyzed over a 50-dB variation of the input signal levels and for a variety of source excitations for the LPC synthesizer. It is shown that SNR improvements in the CVSD coder of 2-2.5 dB are possible in the slope overload region of the coder by modifying the source excitation of the LPC synthesizer and by preprocessing the input signal to the coder with an allpass filter. Both methods aid in reducing the peak factor (peak to rms level) of the input speech to the coder. Subjectively, however, only slight improvements in quality, if any, were observed with these modifications. The weakest link in terms of quality in the tandem connection appears to be that of the CVSD coder. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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