| publication name | Performance Evaluation of ACELP CODECs against the Compression Ratio and the Change in the Spoken Language and Accent |
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| Authors | Michael N. Micheal, Nagy W. Messiha and Hala A. Mansour |
| year | 2013 |
| keywords | performance, coders, accents, Arabic, Cairo accent, G.723.1, AMR, PESQ. |
| journal | JEE |
| volume | Not Available |
| issue | Not Available |
| pages | Not Available |
| publisher | Not Available |
| Local/International | International |
| Paper Link | Not Available |
| Full paper | download |
| Supplementary materials | Not Available |
Abstract
Speech coding is the process of digitizing the voice in a few bits as possible. Parametric Coding is the encoding technique at which the parameters of the speech signal will be extracted frame by frame during the encoding process. Code Excited Linear Prediction “CELP” is one major type of that category of CODECs. The comparison between the CODECs is based upon the band width, the speech quality and the associated CODEC delay. It has been proven that the quality is inversely proportional to the compression ratio. But what will happen if the speech is compressed more and at the same time the spoken language changed? This paper is made to answer about this question. In this paper an extensive testing is done on ITU G.723.1 (5.3 kbps) and 3GPP Adaptive Multi Rate “AMR” (12.2 kbps). The test is made using 3 groups of speech samples (English, Arabic and Cairo accent) with different speakers’ gender. The evaluation method used is the ITU PESQ algorithm. It has been proved that the speech quality dramatically decreases as the compression ratio increases, which will be rather lower and unstable for Arabic and Cairo accent over that of the English language.