• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.230-235
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• 2008

This paper addresses issues associated with the real-time implementation of a wideband speech codec such as ITU-T G. 729. 1 on an ARM processor in order to provide an improved voice quality of a VoWiFi service. The real-time implementation features in optimizing the C-source code of G.729. 1 and replacing several parts of the codec algorithm with faster ones. The performance of the implementation is measured by the CPU time spent for G.729.1 on the ARM926EJ processor that is used for a VoWiFi phone. It is shown from the experiments that the G.729.1 codec works in real-time with better voice quality than G 729 codec that is conventionally used for VoIP or VoWiFi phones.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.63-68
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• 2001

This paper describes the details of ITU-T SGIS G.729A speech coder implementation using ARM9 Thumb/sup R/ processor core and various techniques used in the optimization process. ITU-T G.729 speech coder is the standard of the toll quality 8 kbit/s speech coding. The input to the speech encoder is assumed to be a 16 bits PCM signal at a sampling rate of 8000 samples per second. G.729A is reduced complexity version of the G.729 coder. This version is bit stream interoperable with the full version. The implemented coder requires 34.8 MIPS for the encoder and 8.1 MIPS for the decoder, 36.5 kBytes of program ROM and 6.3 kBytes of data RAM, respectively. The implemented coder is tested against the set of 9 test vectors provided by ITU-T for bit exact implementation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.71-83
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• 2003

In this paper, a novel transcoding algorithm for the G.729A and the Selectable Mode Vocoder(SMV) vocoders via direct parameter transformation is proposed. In contrast to the conventional tandem transcoding algorithm, the proposed algorithm converts the parameters of one coder to the other without going through the decoding and encoding processes. In transcoder from SMV to G.729A, LSP conversion algorithm, pitch delay conversion algorithm and transcoding algorithm in lower rate are proposed, and in transcoder from G.729A to SMV, LSP conversion algorithm, pitch delay conversion algorithm and rate selection algorithm are proposed. Evaluation results show that while exhibiting better computational and delay characteristics, the proposed algorithm produces equivalent or Improved speech quality to that produced by the tandem transcoding algorithm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.8C
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• pp.575-582
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• 2008

In this paper we described the process and the results of real-time implementation of G.729.1 wideband speech codec which is standardized in SG15 of ITU-T. To apply the codec on ARM926EJ-S(R) processor core. we transformed some parts of the codec C program including basic operations and arithmetic functions into assembly language to operate the codec in real-time. G.729.1 is the standard wideband speech codec of ITU-T having variable bit rates of $8{\sim}32kbps$ and inputs quantized 16 bits PCM signal per sample at the rate of 8kHz or 16kHz sampling. This codec is interoperable with the G.729 and G.729A and the bandwidth extended wideband($50{\sim}7,000Hz$) version of existing narrowband($300{\sim}3,400Hz$) codec to enhance voice quality. The implemented G.729.1 wideband speech codec has the complexity of 31.2 MCPS for encoder and 22.8 MCPS for decoder and the execution time of the codec takes 11.5ms total on the target with 6.75ms and 4.76ms respectively. Also this codec was tested bit by bit exactly against all set of test vectors provided by ITU-T and passed all the test vectors. Besides the codec operated well on the Internet phone in real-time.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.45-51
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• 2000

This paper describes real-time implementation of a multi-channel G.729A speech coder using a 16 bit fixed-point Digital Signal Processor (DSP) and its application to a Voice Mailing Service (VMS) system. TMS320C549 by Texas Instruments was used as a fixed point DSP chip and a 4 channel G.729A coder was implemented on the chip. The implemented coder required 14.5 MIPS for the encoder and 3.6 MIPS for the decoder at each channel. In addition, memories required by the coder were 9.88K words and 1.69K words for code and data sections, respectively. As a result, the developed VMS system that accommodates two DSP chips was able to support totally 8 channels. Experimental results showed that the our multi-channel coder passes all of test vectors provided by ITU-T.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2236-2239
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 G.729A 와 SMV 음성 부호화기를 위한 새로운 파라미터 직접 변환 방식의 상호 부호화 알고리즘을 제안한다. 상호 부호화를 위하여 부가적인 복호화, 부호화 과정을 거쳐야하는 기존의 tandem 방식과 달리 제안된 파라미터 직접 변환 방식에서는 양 음성부호화기에서 공통적으로 사용하는 파라미터들이 직접 변환된다. SMV에서 G.729A로의 상호 부호화에서는 LSP 변환, 피치 지연 변환, 낮은 전송률에서의 상호 부호화 둥의 알고리즘을 제안하고, G.729A에서 SMV로의 상호 부호화에서는 LSP 변환, 피치 지연 변환, 전송률 결정 등의 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘을 다양한 방법으로 평가해본 결과 기존의 tandem 방식과 비교하여 계산량과 지연 시간을 줄이면서도 동등한 음질 또는 향상된 음질을 구현함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.392-400
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose an effective speech reinforcement technique base on ITU-T G.729A CS-ACELP codec under the near-end background noise environments. In general, since the intelligibility of the far-end speech for the near-end listener is significantly reduced under near-end noise environments, we require a far-end speech reinforcement approach to avoid this phenomena. In contrast to the conventional speech reinforcement algorithm, we reinforce the excitation signal of the codec's parameters received from the far-end speech signal based on the G.729A speech codec under various background noise environments. Specifically, we first estimate the excitation signal of ambient noise at the near-end through the encoder of the G.729A speech codec, reinforcing the excitation signal of the far-end speech transmitted from the far-end. we specially propose a novel approach to directly reinforce the excitation signal of far-end speech signal based on the decoder of the G.729A. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by the CCR (Comparison Category Rating) test of the method for subjective determination of transmission quality in ITU-T P.800 under various noise environments and shows better performances compared with conventional SNR Recovery methods.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.10B
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• pp.939-945
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• 2008

Tn this paper we described the process and the results of an implementation of Internet terminal using G.729.1 wideband speech codec for next generation network. For this purpose firstly we chose a high performance RISC application processor having DSP features for speech codec processing and enhanced Multimedia Accelerator(eMMA) function for video codec. In the implementation of this terminal, we used G.729.1 codec recently standardized in ITU-T which is a new scalable speech and audio codec that extends 0.729 speech coding standard. To adopt G.729.1 codec to this terminal we transformed most of the fixed point C codes which require more complexity into assembly codes so as to minimize processing time in the processor. As a result of this work we reduced the execution time of the original C codes about 80% and operated in real time on the terminal. For video we used H.263/MPEG-4 codec which is supported by the eMMA with hardware in the processor. In the SIP call processing test connected to real network we obtained under looms end-to-end delay and 3.8 MOS value measured with PESQ instrument. Besides this terminal operated well with commercial terminals.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.241-250
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• 2003

In this paper, we implemented the vocoder of variable rate by applying the SOLA-B algorithm to the G.729A to the TMS320C5416 in real-time. This method using the SOLA-B algorithm is that it is reduced the duration of the speech in encoding and is played at the speed of normal by extending the duration of the speech in decoding. But the method applied to the existed G.729A and SOLA-B algorithm is caused the loss of speech quality in G.729A which is not reflected about length variation of speech. Therefore the proposed method is encoded according as it is modified the structure of LSP quantization table about the length of speech is reduced by using the SOLA-B algorithm. The vocoder of variable rate by applying the G.729A and SOLA-B algorithm is represented the maximum complexity of 10.2MIPS about encoder and 2.8MIPS about decoder in 8kbps transmission rate. Also it is evaluated 17.3MIPS about encoder, 9.9MIPS about decoder in 6kbps and 18.5MIPS about encoder, 11.1MIPS about decoder in 4kbps according to the transmission rate. The used memory is about program ROM 9.7kwords, table ROM 4.69kwords, RAM 5.2kwords. The waveform of output is showed by the result of C simulator and Bit Exact. Also, the result of MOS test for evaluation of speech quality of the vocoder of variable rate which is implemented in real-time, it is estimated about 3.68 in 4kbps.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.15-18
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• 2000

ACELP는 우수한 음질을 제공하지만 최적의 코드 벡터를 찾기 위한 계산량이 상당히 많은 단점이 있고, 이로 인하여 모든 시스템과 단말기에서는 고성능 DSP칩을 사용하여 동작시킨다. 본 논문에서는 고속 ACELP 코드북 검색 방법인 펄스 교환 검색 방법을 G.729 음성 압축기에 적용시켜 G.729 음성 압축기의 계산량을 감소시키는 방법을 연구하였다. 적용된 방법은 두 단계 과정을 가지며, 첫 단계에서는 완전 순차적 검색 방법을 통하여 매우 빠르게 대략적인 코드 벡터를 찾는다. 두 번째 단계에서는 앞에서 선택된 코드 벡터의 각 펄스의 중요도를 계산하여 역할이 적은 펄스를 제거하고 새로운 펄스로 교환하는 펄스 교환 과정을 통하여 코드 벡터의 성능을 향상시킨다. 적용된 방법은 표준에서 사용하는 코드북 검색 방법보다 적은 계산량을 가진다. 적용된 방법의 성능은 표준보다 0.3-0.5dB 정도의 SNRseg 감소를 보이지만 Fast Algorithm인 G.729A보다는 우수한 음질의 코드 벡터를 찾으며, 다양한 음성신호를 이용한 모의 실험을 통하여 이 결과를 확인하였다.