Standardization of the new 3GPP EVS codec
Stefan Bruhn, Harald Pobloth, Markus Schnell, Bernhard Grill, Jon Gibbs, Lei Miao, Kari Järvinen, Lasse Laaksonen
Abstract
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 communication systems in the most competitive means in terms of communication quality and efficiency. This paper provides an in-depth insight into 3GPP's rigorous and transparent processes that made it possible for the mobile industry, with its many competing players, to successfully develop and standardize a codec in an open, fair and constructive process. This paper also enables an understanding of this achievement by providing an overview of the EVS codec technology, the standard specifications, and the performance of the codec that will elevate HD voice services to the next quality level.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{icassp2015_standardizationo,
title = {Standardization of the new 3GPP EVS codec},
author = {Stefan Bruhn and Harald Pobloth and Markus Schnell and Bernhard Grill and Jon Gibbs and Lei Miao and Kari Järvinen and Lasse Laaksonen and Noboru Harada and Nobuhiko Naka and Stéphane Ragot and Stéphane Proust and Takako Sanda and Imre Varga and Craig Greer and Milan Jelinek and Minjie Xie and Paolo Usai},
booktitle = {ICASSP 2015},
year = {2015}
}