The past three decades has witnessed substantial progress towards the application of low-rate speech coders to civilian and military communications as well as computer-related voice applications. Central to this progress has been the development of new speech coders capable of producing high-quality speech at low data rates. Most of these coders incorporate mechanisms to: represent the spectral properties of speech, provide for speech waveform matching, and "optimize" the coder's performance for the human ear. A number of these coders have already been adopted in national and international cellular telephony standards. The objective of this paper is to provide a tutorial overview of speech coding methodologies with emphasis on those algorithms that are part of the recent low-rate standards for voice applications. Although the emphasis is on the new low-rate coders, we attempt to provide a comprehensive survey by covering some of the traditional methodologies as well. The paper starts with a historical perspective and continues with a brief discussion on the speech properties and performance measures. Then I proceed with descriptions of waveform coders, linear predictive vocoders, and analysis-by-synthesis linear predictive coders. At the end the system for computer-based stenographing is presented. Quality research and ways how to improve this system will be provided.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2004~D_20040529_122424-17577 |
| Date | 29 May 2004 |
| Creators | Bliūdžius, Mindaugas |
| Contributors | Rubliauskas, Dalius, Jusas, Vacius, Kazanavičius, Egidijus, Stulpinas, Raimundas, Butleris, Rimantas, Targamadzė, Aleksandras, Bareiša, Eduardas, Štuikys, Vytautas, Kaunas University of Technology |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Kaunas University of Technology |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2004~D_20040529_122424-17577 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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