Worksheet-1 (July 26, 2016)

Digital voice and picture communication (EC60601)

1. Assume the G.726 codecs input speech signal is 16-bit linear PCM and the sampling rate is 8
kHz. The output of the G.726 codec can operate at four possible data rates: 40 kb/s, 32 kb/s, 24 kb/s
and 16 kb/s. Explain how these rates are obtained and what the compression
ratios are when compared with 8-bit PCM.
2. Determine the input and output data rates (in kb/s) and hence the compression ratio for a G.711
codec. Assume that the input speech signal is first sampled at 8 kHz and that each sample is then
converted to 14-bit linear code before being compressed into 8-bit non-linear PCM by the G.711
codec.
3. For the G.723.1 codec, it is known that the transmission bit rates can operate at either 5.3 or 6.3
kb/s. What is the frame size for G.723.1 codec? How many speech samples are there within one
speech frame? Determine the number of parameters bits coded for the G.723.1 encoding.
4. Given a signal source x such that
, design a uniform quantizer with N =7 by
specifying all input boundaries xi and output levels yi.
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(i.e. step-size)
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