Abstract:
Vector quantization techniques reduce the effective bit rate to 600 bps while maintaining intelligible speech. Four frames of speech are combined into one frame. The system uses mixed excitation linear prediction speech model parameters to quantized the frame and achieve a fixed rate of 600 bps. The system allows voice communication over bandwidth constrained channels.
Abstract:
A method and system reduces data error in an automatic repeat request (ARQ) communications system. Data is code-combined in a communications session that uses an automatic repeat request protocol by sending alternate phases of an encoder state. The underlying signaling constellation is changed when code-combining performance degrades. An optimal signaling constellation and code rate can be determined from a previous packet acknowledgment (ACK) status or from a look-up table previously determined by use.
Abstract:
A method is provided for decoding data streams in a voice communication system. The method includes: receiving two or more data streams having voice data encoded therein; decoding each data stream into a set of speech coding parameters; forming a set of combined speech coding parameters by combining the sets of decoded speech coding parameters, where speech coding parameters of a given type are combined with speech coding parameters of the same type; and inputting the set of combined speech coding parameters into a speech synthesizer.
Abstract:
A system and method reduces the effects of the bit-error induced distortion of decoded voice transmission by assigning vectors that are close or similar in Euclidean distance to respective indices that are close in Hamming distance. The system calculates a first distortion sum of the distance error induced by single, double or N bit error possibilities, switches vector assignments and calculates a second distortion sum. If the second sum is less than the first sum the vector swap is maintained.