This paper presents a harmonic+noise speech coder which uses an efficient spectral quantization technique and a novel voiced/unvoiced (V/UV) mixing model. The harmonic magnitudes are coded at 23 bits/frame using the magnitude response of a linear predictive coding (LPC) system. The difference between the harmonic magnitudes and the sampled magnitude response is minimized by the closed-loop appr...

MPEG-4 standardizes natural audio coding at bitrates ranging from 2 kbit/s, suitable for intelligible speech coding, to 64 kbitls per channel, suitable for high-quality audio coding. Within this range, three categories of coding are defined: parametric coding, Code Excited Linear Predictive coding (CELP) and time/frequency (T/F) coding. The unique contribution of MPEG4 audio is that not only do...

Line Spectrum Pair (LSP) representation of Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) parameters is widely used in speech coding applications. An efficient method for LPC to LSP conversion is Kabal’s method. In this method the LSPs are the roots of two polynomials P'p(x) and Q'p(x), and are found by a zero crossing search followed by successive bisections and interpolation. The precision of the obtained LS...

Understanding the guiding principles of sensory coding strategies is a main goal in computational neuroscience. Among others, the principles of predictive coding and slowness appear to capture aspects of sensory processing. Predictive coding postulates that sensory systems are adapted to the structure of their input signals such that information about future inputs is encoded. Slow feature anal...

In this paper we describe a f lexib le analysls-synthesls system which can be used for a number of studies In speech research. The maln objective Is to have a synthesis system whose characteristics can be controlled through a set of parameters to realize any desired voice characteristics. The basic synthesis scheme consists of two steps: Generation of an excitation signal from pitch and galn co...

This paper describes a longitudinal analysis of the vowel development of a Japanese female infant between the ages of 4 and 60 months. The speech data were natural spontaneous speech recorded for at least an hour per month. Vowels were extracted from the data according to their phoneme labels by two transcribers. The two lower spectral peaks of the vowels were estimated by linear predictive cod...

The goal of predictive sparse coding is to learn a representation of examples as sparse linear combinations of elements from a dictionary, such that a learned hypothesis linear in the new representation performs well on a predictive task. Predictive sparse coding has demonstrated impressive performance on a variety of supervised tasks, but its generalization properties have not been studied. We...

Two distinct two-class pattern recognition problems are studied, namely, the detection of male subjects who are diagnosed with vocal fold paralysis against male subjects who are diagnosed as normal and the detection of female subjects who are suffering from vocal fold edema against female subjects who do not suffer from any voice pathology. To do so, utterances of the sustained vowel “ah” are e...