A low-delay CELP coder for the CCITT 16 kb/s speech coding standard
J.-H. Chen, Richard Vandervoort Cox, Y.-C. Lin, Nikil S. Jayant, Melvin J. Melchner · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 1992
A low-delay code-excited linear prediction (LD-CELP) speech coder which is expected to be standardized in 1992 as a CCITT G Series Recommendation for universal applications of speech coding at 16 kb/s is presented. The coder achieves a one-way coding delay of less than 2 ms by making both the LPC predictor and the excitation gain backward-adaptive and by using a small excitation vector size of five samples. The official CCITT laboratory tests revealed that the speech quality of this 16 kb/s LD-CELP coder is either equivalent to or better than that of the CCITT G.721 standard 32-kb/s ADPCM coder for almost all conditions tested. A description of the LD-CELP algorithm, its implementation on the DSP32C for CCITT testing, and performance results from these tests are presented.>