8 accepted papers
The standardization of the codec for Immersive Voice and Audio Services (IVAS) was completed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project in June 2024. The IVAS codec goes beyond traditional mono voice coding by representing and reproducing the spatial characteristics of sound, creating an immersive au…
Split rendering as recently standardized in 3GPP/IVAS allows for offloading a substantial part of a binaural rendering process from a rendering end-device with limited capabilities, such a wearable, to a more capable entity. This is achieved by computing and transmitting pose correction metadata alo…
Virtual Reality (VR) audio scenes may be composed of a very large number of audio elements, including dynamic audio objects, fixed audio channels and scene-based audio elements such as Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA). Potentially, the subjective listening experience may be replicated using a compact s…
The new 3GPP codec for Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) comprises a collection of frame loss concealment techniques, each specifically designed for the different coding modes of that codec. One of them, called “Phase Error Concealment Unit (Phase ECU)”, was developed for the High Quality (HQ) MDCT codi…
A Discontinuous transmission (DTX) system, which is widely adopted in speech codecs, is an important function for speech communication systems that can reduce the transmission bandwidth by at least a half. Within a DTX system, the comfort noise generation (CNG) plays a key role in the overall qualit…
This paper describes a novel audio coding algorithm that is a building block in the recently standardized 3GPP EVS codec [1]. The presented scheme operates in the Modified Discrete Cosine Transform (MDCT) domain and deploys a Split-PVQ pulse coding quantizer, a noise-fill, and a gain control optimiz…
EVS, the newly standardized 3GPP Codec for Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) was developed for mobile services such as VoLTE, where error resilience is highly essential. The presented paper outlines all aspects of the advances brought during the EVS development on packet loss concealment, by presenting…
A new codec for Enhanced Voice Services (EVS), the successor of the current mobile HD voice codec AMR-WB, was standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in September 2014. The EVS codec addresses 3GPP's needs for cutting-edge technology enabling operation of 3GPP mobile communicat…