A Multimode Transform Predictive Coder (MTPC) for Speech and Audio

Speech and audio coding are often considered to be two separate technologies each almost independently developing different techniques for signal compression. At low bit rate the gap in performance between the two technologies begins to be noticeable; speech coders work better on speech and audio coders perform better on music. The challenge is to merge the two technologies into a single coding paradigm which will work as well as either two regardless of the input signal. Presented is a multimode speech and audio coder which can adapt almost continuously between a speech and audio coding mode. This Multimode Transform Predictive Coder (MTPC) shows improved performance on both speech and audio inputs when compared to a single-mode Transform Predictive Coder (TPC).