SBIR/STTR Research Award
A SPECTRALLY AND PERCEPTUALLY WEIGHTED PREDICTIVE CODING TECHNIQUE FOR MOBILE VOICE COMMUNICATIONS APPLICATIONS.
Award amount
$200,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1988Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Science Foundation
- Branch
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- Recipient company
- Compression Telecommunications
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- Contract end date
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Research abstract
A NOVEL SPEECH CODING TECHNIQUE FOR MOBILE VOICE COMMUNICATIONS APPLICATIONS IS PROPOSED. THE TECHNIQUE UTILIZES THE FREQUENCY AND TIME-VARYING PROPERTIES OF SPEECHIN CONJUNCTION WITH A SPEECH QUALITY PERCEPTION CRITERION TOPROVIDE HIGH QUALITY AND NATURAL-SOUNDING SPEECH OVER A WIDERANGE OF BIT RATES (2.4 - 16.0 KBIT/S). THE TECHNIQUE IS ROBUST TO TRANSMISSION ERRORS, PROVIDES A FRAME-WORK FOR VARIABLE BIT RATE CODING OF SPEECH AND IS APPLICABLE TO MARITIME SYSTEMS FOR EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF TRANSMISSION BANDWIDTH.
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