A method and device are provided for determining an optimized scale factor to be applied to an excitation signal or a filter during a process for frequency band extension of an audio frequency signal. The band extension process includes decoding or extracting, in a first frequency band, an excitation signal and parameters of the first frequency band including coefficients of a linear prediction filter, generating an excitation signal extending over at least one second frequency band, filtering using a linear prediction filter for the second frequency band. The determination method includes determining an additional linear prediction filter, of a lower order than that of the linear prediction filter of the first frequency band, the coefficients of the additional filter being obtained from the parameters decoded or extracted from the first frequency and calculating the optimized scale factor as a function of at least the coefficients of the additional filter.

A method and device are provided for determining an optimized scale factor to be applied to an excitation signal or a filter during a process for frequency band extension of an audio frequency signal. The band extension process includes decoding or extracting, in a first frequency band, an excitation signal and parameters of the first frequency band including coefficients of a linear prediction filter, generating an excitation signal extending over at least one second frequency band, filtering using a linear prediction filter for the second frequency band. The determination method includes determining an additional linear prediction filter, of a lower order than that of the linear prediction filter of the first frequency band, the coefficients of the additional filter being obtained from the parameters decoded or extracted from the first frequency and calculating the optimized scale factor as a function of at least the coefficients of the additional filter.

A method and device are provided for determining an optimized scale factor to be applied to an excitation signal or a filter during a process for frequency band extension of an audio frequency signal. The band extension process includes decoding or extracting, in a first frequency band, an excitation signal and parameters of the first frequency band including coefficients of a linear prediction filter, generating an excitation signal extending over at least one second frequency band, filtering using a linear prediction filter for the second frequency band. The determination method includes determining an additional linear prediction filter, of a lower order than that of the linear prediction filter of the first frequency band, the coefficients of the additional filter being obtained from the parameters decoded or extracted from the first frequency and calculating the optimized scale factor as a function of at least the coefficients of the additional filter.

A method and device are provided for determining an optimized scale factor to be applied to an excitation signal or a filter during a process for frequency band extension of an audio frequency signal. The band extension process includes decoding or extracting, in a first frequency band, an excitation signal and parameters of the first frequency band including coefficients of a linear prediction filter, generating an excitation signal extending over at least one second frequency band, filtering using a linear prediction filter for the second frequency band. The determination method includes determining an additional linear prediction filter, of a lower order than that of the linear prediction filter of the first frequency band, the coefficients of the additional filter being obtained from the parameters decoded or extracted from the first frequency and calculating the optimized scale factor as a function of at least the coefficients of the additional filter.

A device for signal processing includes a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store a parameter associated with a bandwidth-extended audio stream. The processor is configured to select a plurality of non-linear processing functions based at least in part on a value of the parameter. The processor is also configured to generate a high-band excitation signal based on the plurality of non-linear processing functions.

A device for signal processing includes a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store a parameter associated with a bandwidth-extended audio stream. The processor is configured to select a plurality of non-linear processing functions based at least in part on a value of the parameter. The processor is also configured to generate a high-band excitation signal based on the plurality of non-linear processing functions.

The disclosure provides a speech processing method and a device thereof. The method includes: acquiring a speech sampling signal frame in a mixed-excitation linear prediction (MELP) speech coding system and estimating signal quality of the speech sampling signal frame; determining, based on the signal quality, a specific linear prediction coding (LPC) order used by an LPC circuit; controlling the LPC circuit to convert the speech sampling signal frame into a line spectrum pair parameter based on the specific LPC order; replacing a speech signal spectrum of the speech sampling signal frame with the line spectrum pair parameter to generate a predicted speech signal; and performing a speech coding operation and a signal synthesizing operation of the MELP speech coding system based on the predicted speech signal.

The disclosure provides a speech processing method and a device thereof. The method includes: acquiring a speech sampling signal frame in a mixed-excitation linear prediction (MELP) speech coding system and estimating signal quality of the speech sampling signal frame; determining, based on the signal quality, a specific linear prediction coding (LPC) order used by an LPC circuit; controlling the LPC circuit to convert the speech sampling signal frame into a line spectrum pair parameter based on the specific LPC order; replacing a speech signal spectrum of the speech sampling signal frame with the line spectrum pair parameter to generate a predicted speech signal; and performing a speech coding operation and a signal synthesizing operation of the MELP speech coding system based on the predicted speech signal.

A method for encoding an audio signal, comprising using one or more algorithms operating on a processor to filter the audio signal into two output signals, wherein each output signal has a sampling rate that is equal to a sampling rate of the audio signal, and wherein one of the output signals includes high frequency data. Using one or more algorithms operating on the processor to window the high frequency data by selecting a set of the high frequency data. Using one or more algorithms operating on the processor to determine a set of linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficients for the windowed data. Using one or more algorithms operating on the processor to generate energy scale values for the windowed data. Using one or more algorithms operating on the processor to generate an encoded high frequency bitstream.

The invention provides an audio encoder including a combination of a linear predictive coding filter having a plurality of linear predictive coding coefficients and a time-frequency converter, wherein the combination is configured to filter and to convert a frame of the audio signal into a frequency domain in order to output a spectrum based on the frame and on the linear predictive coding coefficients; a low frequency emphasizer configured to calculate a processed spectrum based on the spectrum, wherein spectral lines of the processed spectrum representing a lower frequency than a reference spectral line are emphasized; and a control device configured to control the calculation of the processed spectrum by the low frequency emphasizer depending on the linear predictive coding coefficients of the linear predictive coding filter.