Combined speech and audio coding by discrimination

We propose in this paper a general solution for combined speech and audio coding. Particularly, we describe a speech/music discrimination procedure for multi-mode wideband coding. The speech/music decision is updated only when a low-energy frame is detected, and kept unchanged otherwise. The signal is classified using second-order statistics of discriminant parameters. An experimental CELP/transform coder operating at 16 kbit/s is demonstrated. Results show improved performance when compared to single-mode encoding.