| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
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| Research Abstract |
In this study, a very low bit speech coder at 1.2 kbps is newly proposed. Like the LPC vocoder, it requures few types of information (power, pitch, and spectral information), but its quality is far superuor. In the proposed vocoder, the synthesized speech quality is improved based on auditory perceptualcharacterustics. The synthesis method is one of harmonic coding, using sinusoids whose frequencies are multiples of the fundamental frequency, where the amplitudes of the sinusoids are adaptively modulated using Gammatone filters as a perceptual weighting filter. The sinusoids' phases are also adjusted so as to maximize the perceptual quality. In order to reduce the total bit rate to 1.2 kbps, a new segment coder for spectral information (LSP coefficients) using DP matching is also proposed. The quality of the synthesized speech is considerably improved compared with that of the simple LPC vocoder, according to MOS and other preference tests.
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