Introduction to Speech Coding
What, Why, Where & How
(First Part)
By
Allam Mousa
Department of Telecommunication Engineering
An Najah University
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Contents
What is speech coding
Applications
Types of coding
Practical examples of speech coders
Some properties of speech coders
Quantization
Some speech coder standards
Some Speech Properties
Coding Principles
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What is Speech Coding ?
Speech coding is concerned with compact digital representations of
speech signals for efficient transmission or storage.
The objective is to represent a signal with a minimum number of bits while
maintaining perceptual quality.
Current applications for speech and audio coding algorithms include cellular
and personal communications networks (PCNs), teleconferencing, multi-
media systems, and secure communications.
speech coding systems is to transmit speech with the highest possible
quality using the least possible channel capacity.
To save bandwidth in telecoms applications and to reduce memory storage
requirements.
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Why Speech Coding?
speech coding systems is to transmit
speech with the highest possible quality
using the least possible channel capacity.
To save bandwidth in telecoms
applications and to reduce memory
storage requirements.
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Applications of Speech Coding
Wire line Telephony
Videoconferencing
Digital Cellular
IP Telephony
Voice Mail
Speech Storage
World wide growth in communications
Need for new multimedia applications
Advances in VLSI
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Speech Coding Hierarchy:
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Standardization
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI)
International Standards Organization (ISO)
Telecommunication Industry Association (TIA)
R&D Center for Radio systems (RCR)
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Characteristic of Speech Signals:
1-Probability Density Function(PDF):
the pdf of speech signal is in general
characterized by a very high probability of
near zero amplitudes, a significant probability
of very high amplitudes
1 2 x
p ( x) exp
x
2 x
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Characteristic of Speech Signals:
2-Autocorrelation Function (ACF):
The ACF gives a quantitative measure of the
closeness or similarity between samples of a
speech signal as a function of their time
separation.
N 1 k
1
C( k) x( n ) x( n k )
N
n=0
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Characteristic of Speech Signals:
3-Power Spectral Function (PSD):
The nonflat characteristic of the power spectral
density of speech makes it possible to obtain
significant compression by coding speech in the
frequency domain.
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