SPEECH DECODER AND METHOD FOR DECODING SEGMENTED SPEECH FRAMES

• US 20120143602A1
• Filed: 07/26/2011
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: BYUN, Kyung Jin, EUM, Nak Woong, JUNG, Hee-Bum
• Application Number:
  US13/191,007
• Publication Number:
  US 20120143602A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/219
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/005 Correction of errors induced by the transmission channel, if related to the coding algorithm
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/06 Determination or coding of the spectral characteristics, e.g. of the short-term prediction coefficients

Abstract

A method for decoding segmented speech frames includes: generating parameters of a segmented current speech frame by using parameters of a segmented previous speech frame; and decoding a speech frame by using the parameters of the current speech frame, which are generated in the generating of the parameters of the segmented current speech frame.

Claims

1. A method for decoding segmented speech frames, comprising:

generating parameters of a segmented current speech frame by using parameters of a segmented previous speech frame; and

decoding a speech frame by using the parameters of the current speech frame, which are generated in the step of generating the parameters of the segmented current speech frame.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of generating the parameters of the segmented current speech frame comprises:

interpolating rapidly evolving waveform (REW) magnitude information of the current speech frame and REW magnitude information of the previous speech frame and generating REW information of the previous speech frame;

interpolating slowly evolving waveform (SEW) information of the previous speech frame, which is generated from SEW magnitude information of the previous speech frame, and SEW information of the current speech frame, which is generated from SEW magnitude information of the current speech frame, and generating SEW information of the previous speech frame; and

combining information generated by interpolating the SEW information of the previous speech frame and SEW information of a speech frame before the previous speech frame and information generated by interpolating the REW information of the previous speech frame and REW information of the speech frame before the previous speech frame, and generating characteristic waveform (CW) information of the previous speech frame.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the step of generating the parameters of the segmented current speech frame, a linear prediction (LP) coefficient, a pitch value, CW power, REW information, and SEW information of the previous speech frame are further used to generate the parameters of the current speech frame.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the step of generating the parameters of the segmented current speech frame, phase information of a last sample of the previous speech frame is further used to generate the parameters of the current speech frame.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the step of generating the parameters of the segmented current speech frame comprises interpolating the phase information of the last sample and phase information calculated for a first sample of the current speech frame.

6. A speech decoder for decoding segmented speech frames, comprising:

a preprocessing block configured to generate parameters of a segmented current speech frame by using parameters of a segmented previous speech frame; and

a decoding block configured to decode a speech frame by using the parameters of the current speech frame which are generated by the preprocessing block.

7. The speech decoder of claim 6, wherein the preprocessing block comprises:

an REW information generation unit configured to interpolate REW magnitude information of the current speech frame and REW magnitude information of the previous speech frame and generate REW information of the previous speech frame;

an SEW information generation unit configured to interpolate SEW information of the previous speech frame, which is generated from SEW magnitude information of the previous speech frame, and SEW information of the current speech frame, which is generated from SEW magnitude information of the current speech frame, and generate SEW information of the previous speech frame; and

a CW information generation unit configured to combine information generated by interpolating the SEW information of the previous speech frame and SEW information of a speech frame before the previous speech frame and information generated by interpolating the REW information of the previous speech frame and REW information of the speech frame before the previous speech frame, and generate CW information of the previous speech frame.

8. The speech decoder of claim 6, wherein the preprocessing block generates the parameters of the current speech frame by further using an LP coefficient, a pitch value, CW power, REW information, and SEW information of the previous speech frame.

9. The speech decoder of claim 6, wherein the preprocessing block generates the parameters of the current speech frame by further using phase information of a last sample of the previous speech frame.

10. The speech decoder of claim 9, wherein the preprocessing block comprises a phase information unit configured to interpolate the phase information of the last sample and phase information calculated for a first sample of the current speech frame.