Apparatus and method for speech coding

• US 7,383,176 B2
• Filed: 04/01/2005
• Issued: 06/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 12, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Morii, Toshiyuki, Yasunaga, Kazutoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH
• Application Number:
  US11/095,605
• Publication Number:
  US 20050197833A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,159 Days
• Field of Search: 704/219, 704/222, 704/223
• US Class Current: 704/219
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/083 the excitation function being an excitation gain G10L25/90 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/09 Long term prediction, i.e. removing periodical redundancies, e.g. by using adaptive codebook or pitch predictor
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/16 Vocoder architecture

Abstract

CELP-based speech encoder that performs encoding by decomposing one frame into a plurality of subframes, includes an LPC synthesizer that obtains synthesized speech by filtering an adaptive excitation vector and a stochastic excitation vector stored in an adaptive codebook and in an stochastic codebook using LPC coefficients obtained from input speech. A gain calculator calculates gains of the adaptive excitation vector and the stochastic excitation vector. A parameter coder performs vector quantization of the adaptive excitation vector and the stochastic excitation vector obtained by comparing distortions between the input speech and the synthesized speech. A pitch analyzer performs pitch analyses of a plurality of subframes in the frame respectively, before performing an adaptive codebook search for the first subframe, calculating correlation values and finding a value most approximate to the pitch period using the correlation values.

Claims

1. A CELP-based speech encoder that performs encoding by decomposing one frame into a plurality of subframes, comprising:

an LPC synthesizer that obtains synthesized speech by filtering an adaptive excitation vector and a stochastic excitation vector stored in an adaptive codebook and in a stochastic codebook using LPC coefficients obtained from input speech;

a gain calculator that calculates gains of said adaptive excitation vector and said stochastic excitation vector;

a parameter coder that performs vector quantization of the adaptive excitation vector and the stochastic excitation vector obtained by comparing distortions between said input speech and said synthesized speech;

a pitch analyzer that calculates correlation values by performing pitch analyses of the plurality of subframes before performing an adaptive codebook search for a first subframe and finds a value most approximate to a pitch period using said correlation values; and

a search range setter that determines a lag search range using at least one of said correlation values and a value calculated using said correlation values.

2. The CELP-based speech encoder according to claim 1, wherein the search range setter determines the lag search range based on the at least one correlation value and the value most approximate to the pitch period obtained by said pitch analyzer.

3. The CELP-based speech encoder according to claim 2, wherein said search range setter determines a provisional pitch that becomes the center of the search range using the correlation values and the value most approximate to the pitch period obtained by said pitch analyzer.

4. The CELP-based speech encoder according to claim 3, wherein the search range setter sets a lag search section in a specified range around the provisional pitch.

5. The CELP-based speech encoder according to claim 2, wherein the search range setter sets a lag search section by reducing a number of candidates for short pitch periods.

6. The CELP-based speech encoder according to claim 2, wherein the search range setter performs a lag search within a set range during an adaptive codebook search.

7. A computer-readable recording medium that stores a speech encoding program, an adaptive codebook storing part used for synthesizing an excitation vector signal and a stochastic codebook storing a plurality of stochastic excitation vectors, said speech encoding program comprising:

code for obtaining a synthesized speech by filtering an adaptive excitation vector and a stochastic excitation vector stored in said adaptive codebook and said stochastic codebook using decoded LPC coefficients obtained from an input speech;

code for calculating gains of said adaptive excitation vector and said stochastic excitation vector;

code for performing vector quantization on the adaptive excitation vector and the stochastic excitation vector determined by comparing distortions between said input speech and said synthesized speech;

code for calculating correlation values by performing pitch analyses of a plurality of subframes in a processing frame before performing an adaptive codebook search of a first subframe and calculating a value most approximate to a pitch period using said correlation values; and

code for determining a lag search range using at least one of said correlation values and a value calculated using said correlation values.

8. A CELP-based speech encoding method for performing encoding by decomposing one frame into a plurality of subframes, comprising:

obtaining a synthesized speech by filtering an adaptive excitation vector and by filtering a stochastic excitation vector stored in an adaptive codebook and in a stochastic codebook using decoded LPC coefficients obtained from an input speech;

calculating gains of said adaptive excitation vector and said stochastic excitation vector;

performing vector quantization on the adaptive excitation vector and the stochastic excitation vector obtained by comparing distortions between said input speech and said synthesized speech;

calculating correlation values by performing pitch analyses of the plurality of subframes before performing an adaptive codebook search for a first subframe, and finding a value most approximate to the pitch period using said correlation values; and

determining a lag search range using at least one of said correlation values and a value calculated using said correlation values.