Abstract
Several major modifications to the phonetically segmented vector excitation coding (PS-VXC) coder by the authors (1989, 1990) reported previously have resulted in enhanced speech quality while reducing the delay, complexity, and bit rate. Speech is segmented into variable-length phonetic classes and a VXC coding module is tailored to each class. Coding techniques include adaptive linear predictive coding (LPC) analysis and interpolation, two-stage excitation coding of onsets, comb filtering, modified perceptual weighting, and pitch contour smoothing. The improved PS-VXC coder operates at a peak rate of 3.4 kb/s with an average rate of 3.0 kb/s and has a subjective performance closely matching that of the 4.8 kb/s DoD CELP coder.

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