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mean of the innovation energy in GSM-EFR

Started by Unknown March 30, 2000
Dear all,

In GSM-EFR, the mean of the innovation energy is needed for the
quantization of the fixed
codebook gain. The standard mentions that this energy is 36 dB.

Could somebody tell me how this value was computed ?

Thanks in advance,

Giusy




Hello folks,

We can start to examine the question by introducing a few symbols.
So, let us denote the subframe length by N, and the ideal
unquantized gain of the fixed-codebook excitation at subframe n
by g(n). Using this notation, the innovation energy E(n) [dB] at
subframe n becomes

E(n) = 10*log10(e(n)),

in which

N-1
e(n) = (1/N) g(n)^2 sum c(i)^2. (1)
i=0

Here {c(i)} is the excitation sequence generated by the fixed-
codebook. Obviously its mean value is constant for ACELP-coders
like GSM EFR. The mean of the innovation energy E(n) can now be
estimated by encoding a long speech database and computing all
quantities needed in (1) at every subframe. Please see [1] for
a more thorough explanation.

Hope this helps.

Vesa Ruoppila
University of Sherbrooke
Department of Electrical Engineering
Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada
[1] R. Salami, C. Laflamme, J-P. Adoul, D. Massaloux, "A toll-
quality 8 kb/s speech codec for personal communications
system (PCS)," IEEE Trans on Vehicular Technology, Vol.43, No.3,
pp. 808-815, August 1994.

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Dear all,

In GSM-EFR, the mean of the innovation energy is needed for the
quantization of the fixed codebook gain. The standard mentions
that this energy is 36 dB.

Could somebody tell me how this value was computed ?

Thanks in advance,

Giusy