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hengheng1981
Hi,everbody:
I'm studing document of AMR-WB(G.722.2).I have found that there hasn't the post-processing in decoder. I know the technic of post prosessing which is supposed after reconstructing speech can improve the quality of reconstructed speech .
In AMR-WB, there just has some process to adaptive codebook , fixed codebook and gains.
Dose anybody can help me about why AMR-WB needn't post-processing ?
QuantumKnot
It's quite possible that they didn't put post-processing into AMR-WB standard. I don't have the technical specs with me at the moment so I'll check them tomorrow.
hengheng1981
amr-wb is mainly used for wireless communication, right? in addition, for wideband.
I have read some papars, and found that most narrowband communication use post processing, but for wb, they just adjust the gain in CLEP
Does it have some relation to bandwidth?
kwwong
QUOTE (hengheng1981 @ Feb 21 2006, 11:32 PM)
I'm studing document of AMR-WB(G.722.2).I have found that there hasn't the post-processing in decoder. I know the technic of post prosessing which is supposed after reconstructing speech can improve the quality of reconstructed speech .


What post processing technic do you mean? unsure.gif
hengheng1981
a processing aims at background noise
kwwong
QUOTE (hengheng1981 @ Feb 24 2006, 12:04 AM)
a processing  aims at background noise
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Most probably, you will have no problem in adding additional processing at the decoder.
QuantumKnot
QUOTE (kwwong @ Feb 24 2006, 01:42 PM)
QUOTE (hengheng1981 @ Feb 21 2006, 11:32 PM)
I'm studing document of AMR-WB(G.722.2).I have found that there hasn't the post-processing in decoder. I know the technic of post prosessing which is supposed after reconstructing speech can improve the quality of reconstructed speech .


What post processing technic do you mean? unsure.gif
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Most post-processing in CELP coders involve cascading a long-term and short-term postfilter as well as compensating for gain and reducing spectral tilt. The short-term postfilter emphasises formant peaks and attenuates spectral valleys between formants, while the long-term postfilter emphasises pitch harmonics. It makes the reconstructed speech sound better.

As to why they haven't applied it to wideband coding, I'm not too sure. Perhaps, the existing AMR-WB didn't suffer from the quality problems of narrowband CELP. (and I seem to have forgotten to look up the tech specs, as promised in my earlier post lol)
QuantumKnot
OK, now browsing the tech specs of AMR-WB decoding. There is some post-processing in the lower bitrate modes (6.60 and 8.85 kbps) such as anti-sparseness processing, noise enhancement, pitch enhancement, etc.
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