Backward adaptation for low delay vector excitation coding of speech at 16 kbit/s

Abstract

To attain a very-low-delay speech coder at 16 kb/s while maintaining a quality acceptable for the public switched telephone network, low delay vector excitation coding (LD-VXC) is introduced. Backward adaptation is used to track the spectral characteristics of the signal without requiring any buffering of the input speech, thereby allowing a very low delay to be achieved in an analysis-by-synthesis structure. The algorithm differs markedly from conventional VXC or CELP (code-excited linear prediction) coders due to the use of backward adaptive linear prediction for modeling the time-varying short- and long-term correlation of speech. The LD-VXC coder provides very good speech quality at 16 kb/s, moderate complexity, a delay of under 2 ms, and a gentle degradation of quality with transmission errors. The algorithm was submitted to the CCITT as a candidate for a future 16-kb/s speech coding standard. >