Research Article

Superwideband Bandwidth Extension Using Normalized MDCT Coefficients for Scalable Speech and Audio Coding

Table 1

Comparison of bit allocation between the conventional BWE algorithm and the proposed one with a typical set of the design parameters, where the algorithms are realized in the SWB extension of G.729.1 Annex E.

ParameterConventional
BWE
Proposed BWE
Bit allocationTypical: 14, 2

Initial gainm 5
Subband gains28n · ( )26
Fetch indices327 14
Single sinusoidal/
mode indicator/
envelop shaping
191919

Total 7964