Spectral Shaping of Reconstruction Noise in Backward ADPCM Coding
Subject Areas : electrical and computer engineeringAbstract :
The main idea in ADPCM coding is to remove the redundancies of the speech signal before quantization. One of the important characteristics of this coding scheme is the spectral flatness of the reconstruction noise in spite of its low level. It has been tried, in the present research, to improve the perceptual quality of the reconstructed signal by shaping the spectrum of the reconstruction noise using an all-zero filter in the backward ADPCM coding. By doing so, a useful compromise is achieved between the level and the spectral shape of the reconstruction noise. The obtained results show an improvement in the perceptual quality of the reconstructed signal (higher PESQ score) and an increase in the noise level (lower SNR).
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