Simple Speech Transform Coding Scheme using Forward Adaptive Quantization for Discrete Input Signal

Abstract

We propose a speech coding scheme based on the simple transform coding and forward adaptive quantization for discrete input signal processing in this paper. The quasi-logarithmic quantizer is applied to discretization of continuous input signal, i.e. for preparing discrete input. The application of forward adaptation based on the input signal variance provides more efficient bandwidth usage, whereas utilization of transform coding provides sub-sequences with more predictable signal characteristics that ensure higher quality of signal reconstruction at the receiving end. In order to provide additional compression, transform coding precedes adaptive quantization. As an objective measure of system performance we use signal-to-quantization-noise ratio. Sysem performance is discussed for two typical cases. In the first case, we consider that the information about continuous signal variance is available whereas the second case considers system performance estimation when we know only the information about discretized signal variance which means that there is a loss of input signal information. The main goal of such performance estimation comparison of the proposed speech signal coding model is to explore what is the objectivity of performance if we do not have information about a continuous source, which is a common phenomenon in digital systems.