Efficient Harmonic-CELP Based Low Bit Rate Speech Coder

효율적인 하모닉-CELP 구조를 갖는 저 전송률 음성 부호화기

  • 최용수 (LG전자 네트워크연구소) ;
  • 김경민 (연세대학교 신호처리연구센터) ;
  • 윤대희 (연세대학교 신호처리연구센터)
  • Published : 2001.07.01

Abstract

This paper describes an efficient harmonic-CELP speech coder by taking advantages of harmonic and CELP coders into account. According to frame voicing decision, the proposed harmonic-CELP coder adopts the RP-VSELP coder as a fast CELP in case of an unvoiced frame, or an improved harmonic coder in case of a voiced frame. The proposed coder has main features as follows: simple pitch detection, fast harmonic estimation, variable dimension harmonic vector quantization, perceptual weighting reflecting frequency resolution, fast harmonic synthesis, naturalness control using band voicing, and multi-mode. These features make the proposed coder require very low complexity, compared with HVXC coder To demonstrate the performance of the proposed coder, a 2.4 kbps coder has been implemented and compared with reference coders. From results of informal listening tests, the proposed coder showed good quality while requiring low delay and complexity.

본 논문에서는 하모닉 부호화기와 CELP(Code Excited Linear Prediction) 부호화기의 장점을 고려한 효율적인 저 전송률 하모닉-CELP 음성 부호화기를 제안한다. 제안된 하모닉-CELP 부호화기에서는 프레임 단위 유/무성음 판별에 따라 무성음 구간에서는 고속 CELP방식으로 부호화하고 유성음 구간에서는 개선된 하모닉 부호화를 수행한다. 제안된 부호화기는 무성음 부호화를 위한 RP-VSELP(Regular Pulse Vector Sum Excited Linear Prediction), 유성음 부호화를 위한 간단한 정수 피치 검색, 정수 단위 피치에서의 고속 하모닉 추정, 가변 차원 하모닉 벡터 양자화, 주파수 해상도를 반영한 인지 가중치, 고속 하모닉 합성, 대역별 유성음 정도에 따른 자연성 제어, 다중 모드 등을 주요한 특징으로 하며, 이러한 특징들로 인해 기존의 HVXC(Harmonic Vector eXeited Coder) 부호화기에 비해서 매우 낮은 복잡도를 갖는다. 주관적인 음질 평가 결과, 제안된 2.4 kbps 하모닉-CELP 부호화기는 낮은 지연과 적은 계산량으로 양호한 음질을 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다.

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