5 Requirements

3GPP46.011Full rate speechRelease 17Substitution and muting of lost frames for full rate speech channelsTS

5.1 First lost speech frame

Normal decoding of lost speech frames would result in very unpleasant noise effects. In order to improve the subjective quality, the first lost speech frame shall be substituted with either a repetition or an extrapolation of the previous good speech frame(s). Lost speech frames shall not be delivered to the speech decoder, nor shall the output be muted directly.

5.2 Subsequent lost speech frames

For subsequent lost speech frames, a muting technique shall be used that will gradually decrease the output level, resulting in silencing of the output after a maximum of 320 ms. Clause 6 gives an example solution.

5.3 First lost SID frame

A single lost SID frame shall be substituted by the last valid SID frame and the procedure for valid SID frames be applied as described in GSM 06.31 [3].

5.4 Subsequent lost SID frame

For the second lost SID frame, a muting technique shall be used on the comfort noise that will gradually decrease the output level, resulting in silencing of the output after a maximum of 320 ms. Clause 6 gives an example solution.

For subsequent lost SID frames, the muting of the output shall be maintained.