Multi-rate wideband speech/channel codec based on MPEG-4/CELP for ETSI/GSM full-rate channel

Abstract

This paper proposes a wideband multi-rate speech and channel codec based on the MPEG-4/CELP for the ETSI/GSM full-rate channel. In order to improve coding performance under mobile environments, such as channel error and background noise, the proposed codec operates at three bit allocations between speech and channel coding with a constant gross bit-rate of 22.8 kbit/s. The speech coding bit-rates are 10.9, 12.1 and 15.9 kbit/s. It achieves high speech quality under any channel condition by switching the bit allocations and also for noisy speech by using the highest bit-rate. The preliminary subjective evaluation tests show the speech quality is improved by switching the bit allocation under error conditions. It is also comparable of superior to ITU-T Recommendation G.722 48 kbit/s for carrier-to-interference ratios (C/I) higher than 10 dB. The codec at 15.9 kbit/s also gives comparable speech quality to G.722 at 48 kbit/s under background noise conditions.