A Mixed Excitation LPC Vocoder Model for Low Bit Rate Speech Coding

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 242-250

  McCree, Alan V ^a   Barnwell, Thomas P ^b  

^a TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION THEORY; DIGITAL FILTERS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPEECH CODING; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC BACKGROUND NOISE; ADAPTIVE SPECTRAL ENHANCEMENT; BINARY VOICING DECISIONS; DATA RATES; DIAGNOSTIC ACCEPTABILITY MEASURE; HUMAN SPEECH; LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING VOCODERS; LOW BIT RATE SPEECH CODING; PULSE DISPERSION FILTERS;

VOCODERS;

EID: 0029341719     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.397089     Document Type: Article

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