GSM 06.10 13 kbit/s RPE/LTP speech compression available -------------------------------------------------------- The Communications and Operating Systems Research Group (KBS) at the Technische Universitaet Berlin is currently working on a set of UNIX-based tools for computer-mediated telecooperation that will be made freely available. As part of this effort we are publishing an implementation of the European GSM 06.10 provisional standard for full-rate speech transcoding, prI-ETS 300 036, which uses RPE/LTP (residual pulse excitation/long term prediction) coding at 13 kbit/s. GSM 06.10 compresses frames of 160 13-bit samples (8 kHz sampling rate, i.e. a frame rate of 50 Hz) into 260 bits; for compatibility with typical UNIX applications, our implementation turns frames of 160 16-bit linear samples into 33-byte frames (1650 Bytes/s). The quality of the algorithm is good enough for reliable speaker recognition; even music often survives transcoding in recognizable form (given the bandwidth limitations of 8 kHz sampling rate). The interfaces offered are a front end modelled after compress(1), and a library API. Compression and decompression run faster than realtime on most SPARCstations. The implementation has been verified against the ETSI standard test patterns. Jutta Degener (then jutta@cs.tu-berlin.de, nowadays jutta@pobox.com) Carsten Bormann (then cabo@cs.tu-berlin.de, nowadays cabo@tzi.org) Communications and Operating Systems Research Group, TU Berlin Fax: +49.30.31425156, Phone: +49.30.31424315 -- Copyright 1992 by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann, Technische Universitaet Berlin. See the accompanying file "COPYRIGHT" for details. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY FOR THIS SOFTWARE.
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