Real-time implementation of MELP vocoder

• Main Author: Teo, Tse Tsong.
• Other Authors: Tan, Eng Chong
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Hardware::Input/output and data communications; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Pattern recognition
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/13594
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The MELP (Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction) Vocoder has recently been accepted as the new Federal Standard (USA) after LPC-10 and CELP. This vocoder uses a mixture of noise and pulses in the synthesizer to simulate the residual signal obtained after LPC spectral whitening of the input speech. This...