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• • G—PHYSICS
  • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
  • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
  • G10L19/00—Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis
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  • G10L19/08—Determination or coding of the excitation function; Determination or coding of the long-term prediction parameters
  • G10L19/12—Determination or coding of the excitation function; Determination or coding of the long-term prediction parameters the excitation function being a code excitation, e.g. in code excited linear prediction [CELP] vocoders
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
  • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
  • G10L19/00—Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis
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  • G10L19/08—Determination or coding of the excitation function; Determination or coding of the long-term prediction parameters
  • G10L19/10—Determination or coding of the excitation function; Determination or coding of the long-term prediction parameters the excitation function being a multipulse excitation
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
  • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
  • G10L19/00—Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis
  • G10L19/04—Speech or audio signals analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis using predictive techniques
  • G10L19/08—Determination or coding of the excitation function; Determination or coding of the long-term prediction parameters
  • G10L19/10—Determination or coding of the excitation function; Determination or coding of the long-term prediction parameters the excitation function being a multipulse excitation
  • G10L19/107—Sparse pulse excitation, e.g. by using algebraic codebook

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• the present invention relates, in general, to communication systems and, more particularly, to coding information signals in such communication systems.
• CDMA communication systems are well known.
• One exemplary CDMA communication system is the so-called IS-95 which is defined for use in North America by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TLA).
• TLA Telecommunications Industry Association
• TIA/EIA/IS-95 Mobile Station-Base-station Compatibility Standard for Dual Mode Wideband Spread Spectrum Cellular System, January 1997, published by the Electronic Industries Association (EIA), 2001 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006.
• a variable rate speech codec, and specifically Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) codec, for use in communication systems compatible with IS-95 is defined in the document known as IS- 127 and titled Enhanced Variable Rate Codec, Speech Service Option 3 for Wideband Spread Spectrum Digital Systems, September 1996. IS-127 is also published by the Electronic Industries Association (EIA), 2001 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. 20006.
• EIA Electronic Industries Association
• FIG. 1 generally depicts a CELP decoder as is known in the prior art.
• FIG. 2 generally depicts a Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) encoder as is known in the prior art.
• CELP Code Excited Linear Prediction
• FIG. 3 generally depicts a joint interleaved pulse permutation matrix in accordance with the invention.
• FIG. 4 generally depicts a flow chart describing how the codebook is generated in accordance with the invention.
• FIG. 5 generally depicts a joint interleaved pulse permutation matrix for pulses 3 and 4 in accordance with the present invention.
• a method for coding an information signal comprises the steps of dividing the information signal into blocks and deriving a target signal based on a block of the information signal.
• the method further includes the steps of coding the target signal using pulse positioning techniques based on an error criteria, wherein the allowable positions of a given pulse are dependent on the positions of one or more other pulses, to produce coded pulse positions and transmitting the coded pulse positions to a destination.
• the information signal further comprises a speech signal or an audio signal and a block of the information signals further comprise a frame or a subframe of the information signals.
• the error criteria further comprises a perceptually weighted squared error criteria and the allowable pulse positions are determined using an arbitrary closed-form expression E( ⁇ ), in which at least one of the conditions within the expression pertain to at least two of the elements within ⁇ .
• FIG. 1 generally depicts a Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) decoder 100 as is known in the art.
• CELP Code Excited Linear Prediction
• This signal is scaled using the FCB gain factor / and combined with a signal E(n) output from an adaptive codebook 104 (ACB) and scaled by a factor ⁇ , which is used to model the long term (or periodic) component of a speech signal (with period r).
• the signal E t (n) which represents the total excitation, is used as the input to the LPC synthesis filter 106, which models the coarse short term spectral shape, commonly referred to as "formants”.
• the output of the synthesis filter 106 is then perceptually postfiltered by perceptual postfilter 108 in which the coding distortions are effectively "masked” by amplifying the signal spectra at frequencies that contain high speech energy, and attenuating those frequencies that contain less speech energy. Additionally, the total excitation signal E,(n) is used as the adaptive codebook for the next block of synthesized speech.
• FIG. 2 generally depicts a CELP encoder 200.
• the goal is to code the perceptually weighted target signal x w (n), which can be represented in general terms by the z-transform:
• W(z) is the transfer function of the perceptual weighting filter 208, and is of the form:
• H(z) is the transfer function of the perceptually weighted synthesis filters 206 and 210, and is of the form:
• H zs ( ) is the "zero state" response of H(z) from filter 206, in which the initial state of H(z) is all zeroes
• H m (z) is the "zero input response" of H(z) from filter 210, in which the previous state of H(z) is allowed to evolve with no input excitation.
• the initial state used for generation of H zlR (z) is derived from the total excitation E t (n) from the previous subframe.
• FCB perceptually weighted target signal x w (n) and the perceptually weighted excitation signal x w (n). This can be expressed in time domain form as:
• c k (ri) is the codevector corresponding to FCB codebook index k
• ⁇ k is the optimal FCB gain associated with codevector c k ( ⁇ )
• h( ⁇ ) is the impulse response of the perceptually weighted synthesis filter H(z)
• M is the codebook size
• L is the subframe length
• x w (n) ⁇ k c k ( ⁇ ) * h(ri) .
• speech is coded every 20 milliseconds (ms) and each frame includes three subframes of length L.
• Eq.4 can also be expressed in vector-matrix form as:
• H is the L x L zero-state convolution matrix
• the FCB utilizes a multipulse configuration in which the excitation vector c k contains very few non-zero, unit magnitude values. This configuration is known in the art as Algebraic CELP, or ACELP.
• Table 1 generally depicts pulse positions defined for IS-127 Rate 1/2.
• the excitation codevector c k can contain " holes" in which certain positions are not represented by the vector space. That is, an optimal match to the target vector may require a pulse at position 12, but the definitions of the pulse positions in Table 1 does not allow a pulse to be located at that position.
• the constraints on positions may cause the pulse to be placed either at locations close to the optimal position, or worse, the energy of the target signal may be completely missed at that position. This can cause distortion, and possibly audible artifacts in the synthesized speech signal.
• the bit allocation of 16 bits would be divided between the four tracks equally so that each track would receive four bits.
• the four bits per track would further be composed of three bits for position (comprising 8 different positions) and one sign bit to indicate the polarity of the pulse.
• the pulse positions can then be extracted at the decoder by:
• the respective positions of pulse 0 are shown along the horizontal axis, and the positions of pulse 1 are shown along the vertical axis.
• the "forbidden" pulse combinations are designated by the shaded regions while the allowable combinations are unshaded.
• FIG. 4 generally depicts a flow chart describing how the codebook is generated in accordance with the invention.
• the flowchart shows a basic nested loop structure in which all permutations of 0 ⁇ / ⁇ M and 0 ⁇ j ⁇ N are generated.
• N and M are the total number of allowable positions for each pulse.
• the decision in the innermost loop simply checks for forbidden combinations [i,j] according to function F(i,j) at step 402, which in the example of FIG. 3 is described as:
• This function returns a value of 1 for cases when the absolute value of the difference of / andy is an element of the given set; otherwise, a zero is returned. This is shown in step 403.
• the elements of the given set correspond to the distances between the diagonal shaded elements of FIG. 3, and the expression is therefore sufficient in describing all necessary shaded regions.
• the respective positions are calculated using the following expression:
• ⁇ is the decimated track position
• N lr ⁇ ck is the number of tracks
• n is the track number.
• FIG. 5 generally depicts a joint interleaved pulse permutation matrix for pulses p 2 and p 3 in accordance with the present invention. As shown in FIG.
• n is the number of pulses.

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