Spectral quantization and interpolation for CELP coders

Abstract

The authors present results on the comparative performance of nonuniform scalar quantizers using three different LPC (linear predictive coding) representations: the arcsine of reflection coefficients, the log area ratios, and the line spectral frequencies. On comparing the spectral distortion introduced by quantizers based on these representations, it was found that the average distortion was very similar for all three, with the arcsine showing fewer large spectral errors. In a parallel study, the performance of the above LPC representations and the autocorrelation coefficients for interpolating the spectrum between adjacent time frames was investigated and revealed only small differences between the different representations. Informal listening tests with a complete 8 kb/s code-excited linear predictive (CELP) coder, incorporating both quantization and interpolation, showed no significant differences between the various LPC representations, suggesting that the random codebook for the excitation is able to compensate for small spectral deviations. >