An Adaptive Multi Rate Wideband Speech Codec with Adaptive Gain Re-Quantization

Authors:

Erdmann, C. ,  Vary, P. ,  Fischer, K. ,  Stegmann, J. ,  Quinquis, C. ,  Massaloux, D. ,  Kövesi, B.

Book Title:

Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Speech Coding (SCW)

Pages:

p.p. 145-147

Address:

Delavan, Wisconsin, USA

Date:

Sep. 2000

Language:

English

Abstract

This paper describes an adaptive multi-rate wideband (AMR-WB) speech codec proposed for the GSM system and also for the evolving third generation (3G) mobile speech services. The coder is a multi rate SB-CELP (subband-code excited linear prediction) with five modes operating at bit rates from 24 kbit/s down to 9.1 kbit/s. Our basic approach consists of an unequal band-splitting of the input signal into two subbands (SB). A variable rate, multi-mode ACELP coder is applied to the lower subband (0-6 kHz). The various bit rates are integrated in a common structure where the scalability is realized by exchanging the fixed excitation codebooks while leaving all other codec parameters invariant. For the GSM related modes (9.1-17.8 kbit/s), the upper subband (6-7 kHz) is coded using a very low bit rate representation based on bandwidth expansion techniques. In case of the 3G application (24 kbit/s) the upper band is coded using a 4 kbit/s ADPCM coding scheme. In addition the analysis by synthesis (AbS) coder of the lower band employs a novel closed loop gain re-quantization technique controlled by the character of the speech signal. Thereby the codec achieves an enhanced performance for background noise while maintaining its clean speech quality

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