EP0869476A1 - Dispositif de génération de bruit de confort, ainsi que codeur et décodeur de parole incluant des éléments d'un tel dispositif - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a device for comfort noise generation, as well as an encoder and a speech decoder including elements of such a device.
- a voice activity detector which makes it possible to locate, in input signals where voice signals are mixed with noise and moments of silence, periods when speech signals are here.
- the following speech coder transmits regularly (all frames) a stream of digital data that will allow a interlocutor say so much to reconstitute these speech signals.
- we no longer detects speech signals we no longer send coded frames on the network, in order to save speed on it.
- a first object of the invention is to propose a comfort noise generating device remedying this disadvantage and which for this purpose is characterized in that it includes, in coding, in parallel, a determination circuit of the energy of the current frame - the input signals being available as successive length frames predetermined - and an envelope determination circuit of this frame by so-called LPC analysis, and, on decoding, in series, a circuit for generating a Gaussian noise, a subset two gain definition channels in parallel, and one adder of the outputs of said channels, the noise frame of comfort restored in the absence of speech signals in the current input frame being available on the output of said adder.
- This device allows to return to the interlocutor remote better message quality. Indeed, in transmitting during the periods of silence a few frames which contain the essential characteristics of ambient noise, we remove this unpleasant impression of line break in total silence.
- the coding of these few noise frames is very inexpensive in debit, since there is only to send the frequency and energy characteristics of the signal noise, which are sufficient to restore, to the interlocutor, a substantially equivalent noise.
- comfort noise generation devices are already provided in the speech coders described for example in the project recommendation issued recently by the International Union of Telecommunications (ITU), "Draft Recommendation G.723 - Dual rate speech coder for multimedia telecommunication transmitting at 5.3 and 6.3 kbits / s ", ITU, Study Group 15, 1995, 10th” LBC Meeting ", Newton, Ma., USA, aimed at defining a standard for a speech coder.
- comfort noise generation is very strongly nested in the speech encoder.
- the method used does not depend on the coder. We do not no longer uses waveform dictionaries, which were traditionally present in speech coders.
- the addition to the filtered noise of a Gaussian noise is particularly interesting when ambient noise is very weak.
- Another object of the invention is to propose a speech coder and decoder including elements of a comfort noise generation device as described above.
- the input signals are available in the form of successive frames TR n-1 , TR n , ... etc ... of predetermined duration.
- the device described comprises first of all, as indicated in the figure, a circuit 11 for determining the energy of the current frame, also called gain analysis, as well as a circuit 12 for determining the envelope of this frame (from the frequency point of view) by means of an analysis called LPC (in English: l inear p redictive c oding) which makes it possible to estimate coefficients of linear prediction.
- LPC in English: l inear p redictive c oding
- the device includes first a circuit 21 for generating a Gaussian noise (or, at least, noise constituting an approximation of a Gaussian noise).
- This circuit is not a dictionary of shapes wave and therefore does not require memory.
- the calculation allowing this generation is a sum, made in time real, of pseudo-random numbers (we get a signal Gaussian if the number of iterations is large enough, less than ten generally sufficient).
- This noise is sent in parallel on two gain definition channels 30 and 40 including the first includes in series a gain circuit 31 (this gain is determined by the energy - which has been transmitted - of the frame current), a filter 32 (whose LPC coefficients - also transmitted- have been estimated as indicated above) and a multiplier 33.
- the output of this multiplier 33 and that of a similar multiplier 43 constituting the other path 40 constitute the inputs of a adder 25 at the output of which the noise frame is present TBC comfort level reconstituted in the absence of speech signals.
- the present invention is not limited to this exemplary embodiment, from which variants may be provided.
- decoding we can take into account that we reduced the flow by not not transmitting each time a coded frame: to decrease abrupt transitions, it is then possible to make a interpolation with the previous frames, with regard to energy and filter coefficients. Can also improve quality by also providing for coding a interpolation of the energy of the past frames.
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- Dispositif de génération de bruit de confort pour codeur/décodeur de parole, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend, au codage, en parallèle, un circuit de détermination de l'énergie de la trame courante -les signaux d'entrée étant disponibles sous forme de trames successives de longueur prédéterminée- et un circuit de détermination de l'enveloppe de cette trame par analyse dite LPC, et, au décodage, en série, un circuit de génération d'un bruit gaussien, un sous-ensemble de deux voies de définition de gain en paralléle, et un additionneur des sorties desdites voies, la trame de bruit de confort reconstituée en l'absence de signaux de parole dans la trame courante d'entrée étant disponible sur la sortie dudit additionneur.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la première voie comprend en série un circuit de gain, ledit gain étant en relation directe avec l'énergie calculée pour cette trame courante, un filtre de coefficients déterminés par ladite analyse LPC, et un multiplieur par un coefficient de pondération α, et en ce que la deuxième voie comprend un multiplieur par le coefficient de pondération complémentaire (1-α).
- Codeur de parole caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend, pour permettre au décodage la génération d'un bruit de confort, un circuit de détermination de l'énergie de la trame courante - les signaux d'entrée étant disponibles sous forme de trames successives de longueur prédéterminée - et un circuit de détermination de l'enveloppe de cette trame par analyse dite LPC.
- Décodeur de parole caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend en série, pour permettre la génération d'un bruit de confort, un circuit de génération d'un bruit gaussien, un sous-ensemble de deux voies de définition de gain en parallèle, et un additionneur des sorties desdites voies, la trame de bruit de confort reconstituée en l'absence de signaux de parole dans la trame courante d'entrée étant disponible sur la sortie dudit additionneur.
- Décodeur selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que la première voie de définition de gain comprend en série un circuit de gain, ledit gain étant en relation directe avec l'énergie calculée pour cette trame courante, un filtre de coefficients déterminés par ladite analyse LPC, et un multiplieur par un coefficient de pondération α, et en ce que la deuxième voie de définition de gain comprend un multiplieur par le coefficient de pondération complémentaire (1-α).
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