In recent years, tools in perceptual coding of high-quality audio have been tailored to capture highly detailed information regarding signal components so that they gained an intrinsic ability to represent audio parametrically. In a recent paper we described a first validation model to such an approach applied to parametric coding of wideband speech. In this paper we describe specific advances to such an approach that improve coding efficiency and signal quality. A special focus is devoted to the fact that transmission to the decoder of any phase information is avoided, and that direct synthesis in the time-domain of the periodic content of speech is allowed in order to cope with fast F0 changes. A few examples of signal coding and transformation illustrate the impact of those improvements.

Authors: Ferreira, Aníbal; Sinha, Deepen
Affiliations: University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; ATC Labs, Newark, NJ, USA(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 140 (May 2016) Paper Number: 9509
Publication Date: May 26, 2016 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Audio Equipment, Audio Formats, and Audio Signal Processing
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