A.2 Description of digital test sequences

3GPP46.032Full rate speechRelease 17TSVoice Activity Detector (VAD) for full rate speech traffic channels

A.2.1 Test sequences

The VAD algorithm uses results from the full rate speech encoder defined in GSM 06.10. In the testing of the VAD, it is assumed that the relevant speech encoder functions have been verified by the test sequences defined in GSM 06.10.

The five types of input sequences are briefly described below.

Spectral comparison

The two kinds of statements of the spectral comparison algorithm (subclause 3.4), arithmetic statements and control statements, are tested by separate test sequences.

Arithmetic statements:

spec_a1.*

spec_a2.*

Control statements

spec_c1.*

spec_c2.*

spec_c3.*

spec_c4.*

Threshold adaptation

There are two types of tests to verify the threshold adaptation described in subclause 3.6:

adapt_i1.*

adapt_i2.*

The initial test sequences test the acf0 and VAD decision. A fault in the VAD decision will cause all the other sequences to fail, so it is recommended that this test is run before all other tests.

adapt_m1.*

adapt_m2.*

The main test sequences will check the basic threshold adaptation mechanism.

Periodicity detection

pitch1.*

pitch2.*

These sequences check the periodicity detection algorithm described in subclause 3.5.

Tone detection

The tone detector test sequences are only required for downlink VAD implementations. There are three types of test to verify the tone detection algorithm described in subclause 3.10. The first test sequence tests the operation of the tone detector by means of a frequency sweep:

freq_sw.*

The following test sequences test the prediction gain calculation within the tone detector:

pred1.*

pred2.*

The following sequences test the second order pole frequency calculation within the tone detector:

pole1.*

pole2.*

"Safety" and initialization

safety.*

This sequence checks that safety tests have been implemented to prevent zero values being passed to the norm function. It checks the functions described in the Adaptive Filtering and Energy Computation subclause (subclause 3.1), and the Predictor Values Computation (subclause 3.3). This sequence also checks the initialization of thvad and the rvad array.

Real speech

good_sp.*

bad_sp.*

Because the test sequences cannot be guaranteed to find every possible error, there is a small possibility that an implementation of the correct output for test sequences, but fail with real speech. Because of this, an extra set of sequences are included that consist of barely detectable speech and very clean speech.

There are 3 different file extensions:

*.inp: speech encoder input sequences, binary files

*.vad: output flag of the VAD algorithm, ASCII files

*.cod: TX DTX handler output sequences, binary files for comparison with VAD/DTX handler output.

The *.cod files contain speech coder output information in the format described in clause 4.

It should be noted that there is no requirement in GSM 06.12 for a bit exact implementation of the averaging procedure to calculate the "LAR" and "xmax" parameters in the SID frames. Different implementations are allowed.

The algorithms used for the calculation of the LAR and xmax parameters of the SID frames are therefore reproduced below:

LAR averaging:

| FOR i = 1 to 8:

| L_Temp = 2; /* const. for rounding*/

| | FOR n = 1 to 4:

| | L_Temp1 = LAR[j‑n](i); /*conversion 16 ‑‑> 32 bit*/

| | L_Temp = L_Add( L_Temp , L_Temp1 );

| | NEXT n

| L_Temp = L_temp >> 2;

| mean (LAR(i)) = L_Temp; /*conversion 32 ‑‑> 16 bit*/

| NEXT i;

xmax averaging

L_Temp = 8; /* const. for rounding*/

| FOR n = 1 to 4:

| | FOR i = 1 to 4:

| | L_Temp1 = xmax[j‑n](i); /*conversion 16 ‑‑> 32 bit*/

| | L_Temp = L_Add( L_Temp , L_Temp1 );

| | NEXT i

| NEXT n

L_Temp = L_Temp >> 4;

mean (xmax) = L_Temp; /*conversion 32 ‑‑> 16 bit*/

A.2.2 File format description

All the *.inp and *.cod files are written in binary using 16 bit words, while all *.vad files are written in ASCII format. The sizes of the files are shown in table A.2.1, A.2.2 and A.2.3. The detailed format of the *.inp and *.cod files is in accordance with the descriptions given in GSM 06.10 clause 5.

Table A.2.1: File sizes for *.inp extension files

File:

Frames:

Size in bytes:

spec_a1.inp

22

7 040

spec_a2.inp

22

7 040

spec_c1.inp

48

15 360

spec_c2.inp

48

15 360

spec_c3.inp

48

15 360

spec_c4.inp

48

15 360

adapt_i1.inp

67

21 440

adapt_i2.inp

48

15 360

adapt_m1.inp

403

128 960

adapt_m2.inp

376

120 320

pitch1.inp

35

11 200

pitch2.inp

35

11 200

freq_sw.inp

560

179 200

pred1.inp

126

40 320

pred2.inp

126

40 320

pole1.inp

97

31 040

pole2.inp

42

13 440

safety.inp

5

16 00

good_sp.inp

312

99 840

bad_sp.inp

312

99 840

Table A.2.2: File sizes for *.cod extension files

File:

Frames:

Size in bytes:

spec_a1.cod

22

3 344

spec_a2.cod

22

3 344

spec_c1.cod

48

7 296

spec_c2.cod

48

7 296

spec_c3.cod

48

7 296

spec_c4.cod

48

7 296

adapt_i1.cod

67

10 184

adapt_i2.cod

48

7 296

adapt_m1.cod

403

61 256

adapt_m2.cod

376

57 152

pitch1.cod

35

5 320

pitch2.cod

35

5 320

freq_sw.cod

560

85 120

pred1.cod

126

19 152

pred2.cod

126

19 152

pole1.cod

97

14 744

pole2.cod

42

6 384

safety.cod

5

760

good_sp.cod

312

47 424

bad_sp.cod

312

47 424

Table A.2.3: File sizes for *.vad extension files

File:

Frames:

Size in bytes:

spec_a1.vad

22

88

spec_a2.vad

22

88

spec_c1.vad

48

192

spec_c2.vad

48

192

spec_c3.vad

48

192

spec_c4.vad

48

192

adapt_i1.vad

67

268

adapt_i2.vad

48

192

adapt_m1.vad

403

1 612

adapt_m2.vad

376

1504

pitch1.vad

35

140

pitch2.vad

35

140

freq_sw.inp

560

2 240

pred1.vad

126

504

pred2.vad

126

504

pole1.vad

97

388

pole2.vad

42

168

safety.vad

5

20

good_sp.vad

312

1 248

bad_sp.vad

312

1 248