Abstract
A computer-based system has been developed which transmits speech at extremely low bit rates, using binary-coded sequences of phonemes. This phoneme vocoder translates digitized speech into phoneme strings using a system developed originally for an automatic speech understanding system. The phoneme strings are then encoded and transmitted to a digital speech synthesizer for reconstruction. Compression to 160 bps has been achieved with the current system. By encoding the phonemes into syllables, rates as low as 38 bps appear to be possible. Results of a study of the accuracy of the phoneme vocoder at the word level will be presented, and a tape recording will be played.
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