Speech compression for audio description on television

Author

Suddle, M.R. ; Kondoz, A.M. ; Evans, B.G.

Author_Institution

Centre for Satellite Eng. Res., Surrey Univ., Guildford, UK

fYear

1994

fDate

5-7 Apr 1994

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

44

Abstract

The authors have provided an overview of the 7.6 kb/s narrowband and 13.8 kb/s wideband coders they have developed for the AUDETEL application. Both of these coders are based on CELP principles and employ the authors recently developed pulsed residual excitation (PRE) codebook. This codebook is not only computationally less demanding (as compared to a centreclipped stochastic codebook) but also offers better performance. Informal listening tests have indicated that the output speech quality of the 7.6 kb/s narrowband coder is very close to 64 kb/s PCM, and that of the 13.8 kb/s wideband version is significantly higher than that of the narrowband version

Keywords

data compression; linear predictive coding; speech coding; television; 13.8 kbit/s; 7.6 kbit/s; AUDETEL application; CELP principles; audio description; informal listening tests; narrowband coders; output speech quality; overview; performance; pulsed residual excitation codebook; speech compression; television; wideband coders;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Storage and Recording Systems, 1994., International Conference on

Conference_Location

Keele

Print_ISBN

0-85296-630-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp:19941129

Filename

380525