Real-Time Perceptual Coding of Wideband Speech by Competitive Neural Networks

  • Authors:
  • Eros Pasero;Alfonso Montuori

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WIRN VIETRI 2002 Proceedings of the 13th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets-Revised Papers
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We developed a real-time wideband speech codec adopting a wavelet packet based methodology. The transform domain coefficients were first quantized by means of a mid-tread uniform quantizer and then encoded with an arithmetic coding. In the first step the wavelet coefficients were quantized by using a psycho-acoustic model. The second step was carried out by adapting the probability model of the quantized coefficients frame by frame by means of a competitive neural network. The neural network was trained on the TIMIT corpus and his weights updated in real-time during the compression in order to model better the speech characteristics of the current speaker. The coding/decoding algorithm was first written in C and then optimised on the TMS320C6000 DSP platform.