Coding the Line Spectral Frequencies by Jointly Optimized MA Prediction and Vector Quantization

This paper presents a method for designing and optimizing predictive vector quantizers (PVQ) for coding the line spectral frequencies (LSF) in LPC-based speech and audio coders. The algorithm is based on iterative optimization of the predictors and the vector-quantizer codebooks. It is shown that the proposed method yields high quality LSF predictive quantizers with performance exceeding that of the PVQ used in the G.729 standard.