Contents

3GPP46.008Half rate speechPerformance Characterization of the GSM Half Rate speech codecRelease 17TS

ContentsForeword 3

Foreword 4

Introduction 4

1 Scope 6

2 References 6

3 Abbreviations 6

4 Quality under error conditions (A-law, IRS), Experiment 1 7

5 Quality under error conditions (UPCM, No IRS), Experiment 2 7

6 Quality under tandeming conditions 8

6.1 Quality under tandeming conditions, Experiment 3 8

6.2 Effect of tandeming with other standards, Experiment 7 8

7 Quality under background noise conditions 9

7.1 Experiments 4 and 5 9

7.2 Special background noise 10

7.2.1 Introduction 10

7.2.2 Observations 10

8 Assessment of equivalent qdu, Experiment 6 11

9 Talker dependency, Experiment 8 11

10 DTX System 11

10.1 Assessment of DTX algorithm, Experiment 9 11

10.2 Channel activity in DTX mode 12

10.2.1 Test procedure 12

10.2.2 Speech channel activity 12

10.2.3 Level compensation 12

10.2.4 SID update rate 12

10.2.5 Interleaving compensation 12

10.2.6 Estimated mean TDMA channel activity 12

11 Performance with DTMF tones 13

11.1 Introduction 13

11.2 Test set-up 13

11.3 Results 13

11.4 Conclusions 14

11.5 Result tables of experiments with standard and modified DTMF detectors 14

12 Performance with signalling tones 14

13 Delay 15

14 Frequency response 15

15 Half Rate codec complexity 17

16 Summary of results from characterization Phase 1 and 2 17

16.1 Summary of Results From Characterization Phase 1 17

16.2 Summary of Results From Characterization Phase 2 19

16.3 Conclusion 19

Annex A: Bibliography 20

Annex B: Change history 21