• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.33-40
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• 1994

Code Excited Linear Prediction(CELP) speech coders exhibit good performance at data rates below 4.8 kbps. This major drawback of CELP type coders is required much computation. In this paper, we propose a new pitch search method that preserves the quality of the CELP vocoder with reducing complexity. In the pitch searching, we detect the segments of high correlation by a simple preprocessing, and then carry out the pitch searching only for the segments obtained by the preprocessing. By using the proposed method, we can get approximately $77\%$ complexity reduction in the pitch search.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.06a
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• pp.1104-1111
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• 1994

Code Excited Linear Prediction(CELP) as a speech coder exhibits good performance at data rates below 4.8 kbps. The major drawback to CELP type coders is their large amount of computation. In this paper, we propose a new pitch search method that preserves the quality of the CELP vocoder with reduced complexity. The basic idea is to restrict the pitch searching range by estimating the preliminary pitches. Applying the proposed method to the CELP vocoder, we can get approximately 87% complexity reduction in the pitch search.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.2E
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• pp.20-25
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• 1994

The major drawback to the Code Excited Linear Prediction(CELP) type vocoders is their large computational requirements. In this paper, a simple method is proposed to reduce the pitch searching time in the pitch filter almost without degradation of quality. Bease upon the observational regularity of the correlation function of speech, the searching range can be restricted to the positive side in pitch search. This is done by skipping the negative side with the width which is estimated from the previous positive envelope. In addition to that, the maximum number of available lags can be limited by the threshold, $L_T$, which is set on 58 empirically. So, only the limited numbers of lags are considered in pitch search, which is less than a half of that of the full search method. By using the proposed method in pitch search, its required computations are greatly reduced. Experimental result shows 51% time reduction almost without lowering the speech quality in segmental SNR measure.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.2E
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• pp.51-57
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• 1994

Code Excited Linear Prediction(CELP) vocoder exhibits good performance at data rates below 4.8 kbps. The major drawback to CELP type coders is their large amount of computation. In this paper, we propose a new pitch search method that preserves the quality of the CELP vocoder with reduced complexity. The basic idea is to restrict the pitch searching range by estimating the preliminary pitches. Applying the proposed method to the CELP vocoder, we can get approximately 87% complexity reduction in the pitch search.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.390-395
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• 2009

The robustness of audio fingerprinting system in a noisy environment is a principal challenge in the area of content-based audio retrieval. The selected feature for the audio fingerprints must be robust in a noisy environment and the computational complexity of the searching algorithm must be low enough to be executed in real-time. The audio fingerprint proposed by Philips uses expanded hash table lookup to compensate errors introduced by noise. The expanded hash table lookup increases the searching complexity by a factor of 33 times the degree of expansion defined by the hamming distance. We propose a new method to improve noise robustness of audio fingerprinting in noise environment using predominant pitch which reduces the bit error of created hash values. The sub-fingerprint of our approach method is computed in each time frames of audio. The time frame is transformed into the frequency domain using FFT. The obtained audio spectrum is divided into 33 critical bands. Finally, the 32-bit hash value is computed by difference of each bands of energy. And only store bits near predominant pitch. Predominant pitches are extracted in each time frames of audio. The extraction process consists of harmonic enhancement, harmonic summation and selecting a band among critical bands.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06d
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• pp.401-404
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• 2002

In general, speech coding methods are classified into the following three categories: the waveform coding, the source coding and the hybrid coding. In this paper, First, the reference waveform is detected after searching the pitch period by NAMDF similarity and similarity between the reference waveform and the waveform each pitch period. It made a decision whether the waveform is compressed with the threshold of similarity. If the waveform is compressed only magnitude and pitch information is transmitted into the input of G.723.1 vocoder. Performing through the G.723.1 vocoder, the waveform is restored with the magnitude and pitch information by PSOLA synthesis method. The result of simulation with proposed algorithm has a 31% reduction of bit rate than the standard 5.3kbps G.723.1 ACELP vocoder.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.1E
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• pp.22-29
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• 1995

Code excited Linear Prediction(CELP) vocoder exhibits good performance at data rates below 4.8 kbps. The major drawback of CELP type coders is their large amount of computation. In this paper, we propose a new pitch searching method that preseves the quality of the CELP vodocer reducing computational complexity. The basic idea is that pregrasps preliminary pitches about signal and performs pitch search only about the preliminary pitches. Applying the proposed method to the CELP vocoder, we can reduce complexity about 90% in th pitch search.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.85-92
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• 2005

In this paper, I propose a new extraction method Pitch Pulse and TSIUVC in continuous speech, The TSIUVC searching and extraction method is based on a zero-crossing rate and individual Pitch Pulse extraction method using FIR-STREAK filter. As a result, the extraction rate of individual pitch pulses was $96{\%}$ for male voice and $85{\%}$ for female voice respectively. The TSIUVC extraction rates are $94.9{\%}$ under $88{\%}$ for male voice and $94.9{\%}$ under $84.8{\%}$ for female voice. This method has the capability of being applied to a new speech coding of Voiced/Silence/TSIUVC, speech analysis and speech synthesis.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.24-27
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• 1999

IMBE(Improved Multi-Band Excitation) vocoders exhibit good performance at low data rates. The major drawback to IMBE coders is their large computational requirements. In this paper, thus, we propose a new pitch search method that preserves the quality of the IMBE vocoder with reduced complexity. The basic idea is to skip unnecessary range of the pitch searching by using the quantization error. Applying the proposed method to the IMBE vocoder, we can get approximately $45.88\%$ processing time reduction and there is no difference in voice quality between conventional IMBE and proposed IMBE.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.06a
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• pp.904-911
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• 1994

Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) speech coders exhibit good performance at data rates below 4.8 kbps. The major drawback to CELP type coders is their many computation. In this paper, we propose a new pitch search method that preserves the quality of the CELP vocoder with reducing complexity. The basic idea is to apply the preprocessing technique beforehand grasping the autocorrelation property of speech waveform. By using the proposed method, we can get approximately 77% complexity reduction in the pitch search.