Speech coding

Speech coding is an application of data compression to digital audio signals containing speech. Speech coding uses speech-specific parameter estimation using audio signal processing techniques to model the speech signal, combined with generic data compression algorithms to represent the resulting modeled parameters in a compact bitstream.^[1]

Common applications of speech coding are mobile telephony and voice over IP (VoIP).^[2] The most widely used speech coding technique in mobile telephony is linear predictive coding (LPC), while the most widely used in VoIP applications are the LPC and modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) techniques.^{[citation needed]}

The techniques employed in speech coding are similar to those used in audio data compression and audio coding where appreciation of psychoacoustics is used to transmit only data that is relevant to the human auditory system. For example, in voiceband speech coding, only information in the frequency band 400 to 3500 Hz is transmitted but the reconstructed signal retains adequate intelligibility.

Speech coding differs from other forms of audio coding in that speech is a simpler signal than other audio signals, and statistical information is available about the properties of speech. As a result, some auditory information that is relevant in general audio coding can be unnecessary in the speech coding context. Speech coding stresses the preservation of intelligibility and pleasantness of speech while using a constrained amount of transmitted data.^[3] In addition, most speech applications require low coding delay, as latency interferes with speech interaction.^[4]

^ Arjona Ramírez, M.; Minam, M. (2003). "Low bit rate speech coding". Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, J. G. Proakis, Ed. 3. New York: Wiley: 1299–1308.
^ M. Arjona Ramírez and M. Minami, "Technology and standards for low-bit-rate vocoding methods," in The Handbook of Computer Networks, H. Bidgoli, Ed., New York: Wiley, 2011, vol. 2, pp. 447–467.
^ P. Kroon, "Evaluation of speech coders," in Speech Coding and Synthesis, W. Bastiaan Kleijn and K. K. Paliwal, Ed., Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 1995, pp. 467-494.
^ J. H. Chen, R. V. Cox, Y.-C. Lin, N. S. Jayant, and M. J. Melchner, A low-delay CELP coder for the CCITT 16 kb/s speech coding standard. IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun. 10(5): 830-849, June 1992.

[1] Arjona Ramírez, M.; Minam, M. (2003). "Low bit rate speech coding". Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, J. G. Proakis, Ed. 3. New York: Wiley: 1299–1308.

[2] M. Arjona Ramírez and M. Minami, "Technology and standards for low-bit-rate vocoding methods," in The Handbook of Computer Networks, H. Bidgoli, Ed., New York: Wiley, 2011, vol. 2, pp. 447–467.

[3] P. Kroon, "Evaluation of speech coders," in Speech Coding and Synthesis, W. Bastiaan Kleijn and K. K. Paliwal, Ed., Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 1995, pp. 467-494.

[4] J. H. Chen, R. V. Cox, Y.-C. Lin, N. S. Jayant, and M. J. Melchner, A low-delay CELP coder for the CCITT 16 kb/s speech coding standard. IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun. 10(5): 830-849, June 1992.

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