Multi Switched Split Vector Quantization of Narrowband Speech Signals

Vector quantization is a powerful tool for speech coding applications. This paper deals with LPC Coding of speech signals which uses a new technique called Multi Switched Split Vector Quantization (MSSVQ), which is a hybrid of Multi, switched, split vector quantization techniques. The spectral distortion performance, computational complexity, and memory requirements of MSSVQ are compared to split vector quantization (SVQ), multi stage vector quantization(MSVQ) and switched split vector quantization (SSVQ) techniques. It has been proved from results that MSSVQ has better spectral distortion performance, lower computational complexity and lower memory requirements when compared to all the above mentioned product code vector quantization techniques. Computational complexity is measured in floating point operations (flops), and memory requirements is measured in (floats).

Authors:

• M. Satya Sai Ram
• P. Siddaiah
• M. Madhavi Latha

Keywords:

• Linear predictive Coding
• Multi stage vectorquantization
• Switched Split vector quantization
• Split vectorquantization
• Line Spectral Frequencies (LSF).

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