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Linear predictive coding (LPC) parameters are widely used in various speech coding applications for representing the short-time spectral envelope information of speech [1]. For low bit rate speech coding applications, it is important to quantize these parameters using as few bits as possible. Considerable workhas been done in the past to develop both scalar and vector quantization procedures to quantize the LPC parameters [2, 3,4]. Scalar quantizers quantize each of the LPC parameters independently, while vector quantizers consider the entire set of LPC parameters as an entity and allow for direct minimization of quantization distortion. Because of this, the vector quantizers result in smaller distortion than the scalar quantizers at any given bit rate. The vector quantizers, however, have one major problem; their computational complexity is high. In our earlier paper [3], we have reported on a vector quantizer where the LPC parameter vector is split in the line spectral frequency (LSF) domain to overcome this complexity problem. We have shown that this quantizer can quantize the LPC parameters at 24 bits/frame with an average spectral distortion of 1 dB, less than 2% frames having spectral distortionl in the range 2-4 dB and no frame having spectral distortion greater than 4 dB.
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Paliwal, K.K., Atal, B.S. (1993). Vector Quantization of LPC Parameters in the Presence of Channel Errors. In: Atal, B.S., Cuperman, V., Gersho, A. (eds) Speech and Audio Coding for Wireless and Network Applications. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 224. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3232-3_25
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