Apparatus and method for encoding/decoding a speech signal using adaptively changing codebook vectors

• US 5,828,996 A
• Filed: 10/25/1996
• Issued: 10/27/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nishiguchi, Masayuki, Matsumoto, Jun, Omori, Shiro, Iijima, Kazuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Hudspeth, David R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chawan, Vijay B.
• Application Number:
  US08/736,988
• Time in Patent Office: 732 Days
• Field of Search: 704/225, 704/200, 704/222, 704/219, 704/223, 704/229, 704/220
• US Class Current: 704/220
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/04 using predictive techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/12 the excitation function being a code excitation, e.g. in code excited linear prediction [CELP] vocoders
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2019/0004 Design or structure of the codebook
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2019/0007 Codebook element generation

Abstract

An encoding apparatus in which an input speech signal is divided into blocks and encoded in units of blocks. The encoding apparatus includes an encoding unit for performing CELP encoding having a noise codebook memory containing having codebook vectors generated by clipping Gaussian noise and codebook vectors obtained by learning using the code vectors generated by clipping the Gaussian noise as initial values. The encoding apparatus enables optimum encoding for a variety of speech configurations.

Claims

1. A speech signal encoding method comprising the steps of:

encoding a voiced portion of an input speech signal using a sinusoidal analysis technique; and

encoding an unvoiced portion of said input speech signal using a code excitation linear prediction (CELP) technique, including

dividing said input speech signal on a time axis into units of blocks; and

encoding said divided input speech signal by vector quantization using a time-domain closed-loop search of an optimum vector based on an analysis-by-synthesis method, said optimum vector being a vector that minimizes an error between said input speech signal and an encoded speech signal, wherein said vector quantization of said divided input speech signal uses a codebook memory containing a first set of codebook vectors generated by clipping a Gaussian noise at a plurality of predetermined threshold values and a second set of codebook vectors generated by adaptively changing said first set of codebook vectors using said first set of codebook vectors as initial values.

2. The speech signal encoding method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said codebook memory used for said vector quantization includes a codebook vector having all zero elements.

3. A speech encoding apparatus for encoding an input speech signal divided on a time axis into units of blocks, the apparatus comprising:

first encoding means for encoding a voiced portion of an input speech signal using a sinusoidal analysis technique; and

second encoding means for encoding an unvoiced portion of said input speech signal using a code excitation linear prediction (CELP) technique, wherein

said second encoding means performs vector quantization of results of a time-domain closed-loop search of an optimum vector using an analysis-by-synthesis method, and

said second encoding means includes a codebook memory containing codebook vectors for performing said vector quantization, said codebook vectors including a first set of codebook vectors generated by clipping a Gaussian noise at a plurality of predetermined threshold values and a second set of codebook vectors generated by adaptively changing said first set of vectors using said first set of codebook vectors as initial values.

4. A portable communication apparatus comprising:

amplifier means for amplifying an input speech signal;

A/D conversion means for performing analog to digital conversion of an amplified input speech signal from said amplifier means;

speech encoding means for speech-encoding an output of said A/D conversion means, including

a first encoding section for encoding a voiced portion of an input speech signal using a sinusoidal analysis technique; and

a second encoding section for encoding an unvoiced portion of said input speech signal using a code excitation linear prediction (CELP) technique;

transmission channel encoding means for channel-coding an output of said speech encoding means;

modulation means for modulating a signal from said transmission channel encoding means;

D/A conversion means for digital to analog conversion of a signal from said modulation means; and

RF amplifier means for amplifying a signal from said D/A conversion means and supplying an output signal to an antenna,

wherein said second encoding section includes

means for performing vector quantization using a time-domain closed-loop search of an optimum vector based on an analysis-by-synthesis method, said optimum vector being a vector that minimizes an error between said input speech signal and an encoded speech signal and

a codebook memory containing codebook vectors for performing said vector quantization, said codebook vectors including a first set of codebook vectors generated by clipping a Gaussian noise at a plurality of threshold values and a second set of codebook vectors generated by adaptively changing said first set of codebook vectors using said first set of codebook vectors as initial values.

5. A portable communication terminal apparatus comprising:

RF amplifier means for amplifying an input speech signal;

A/D conversion means for analog to digital conversion of an amplified input speech signal from said RF amplifier means;

demodulation means for demodulating an output from said A/D conversion means;

transmission channel decoding means for channel-decoding an output from said demodulation means;

speech decoding means for speech-decoding an output of said transmission channel decoding means, said speech decoding means decoding a signal encoded by a first encoding section, which encodes a voiced portion of an input speech signal using a sinusoidal analysis technique, and a second encoding section, which encodes an unvoiced portion of said input speech signal using a code excitation linear prediction (CELP) technique;

D/A conversion means for digital to analog conversion of a decoded signal from said speech decoding means; and

amplifier means for amplifying an output signal from said D/A conversion means and supplying the amplified signal to a speaker,

wherein said second encoding section performs vector quantization of results of a time-domain closed-loop search of an optimum vector using an analysis-by-synthesis method and a codebook memory containing a first set of codebook vectors generated by clipping a Gaussian noise at a plurality of threshold values and a second set of codebook vectors generated by adaptively changing said first set of codebook vectors using said first set of codebook vectors as initial values.