Intra-Predictive Switched Split Vector Quantization of Speech Spectra

Vector quantization (VQ) of speech spectral vectors has been improved by techniques such as split VQ (SVQ), vector transforms and direction switching. This letter proposes Intra-Predictive Switched SVQ (IPSSVQ) with direction switching by a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), using at the frame level the prediction-based lower-triangular transform (PLT), which has lower complexity than the Karhunen-Loève transform (KLT). It is shown that equivalent results to GMM KLT SSVQ may be obtained in the quantization of line spectral frequency (LSF) vectors from wideband speech signals, such as transparent coding throughout the range from 46 bit/frame to 41 bit/frame, with about three-fourths as much operational complexity.