ISCA Archive Eurospeech 2001
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 2001

Temporal decomposition: a promising approach to low rate wideband speech compression

C. H. Ritz, I. S. Burnett

In this paper, we present new results on Temporal Decomposition (TD) applied to the Line Spectral Frequencies (LSFs) derived for wideband speech. The paper shows that by incorporating a dynamic programming search algorithm into TD, near transparent quantisation of wideband LSFs can be obtained at approximately 1 kbps. We also show that TD performs significantly better than Split Vector Quantisation at low bit rates. We propose that TD is a promising approach to low rate wideband speech coding for applications such as unicast streaming.