VAD from G729 and noise level

[dmytro_bogovych]

Hi all.

I experiment with VAD from G729 (USC_G729_VAD_Fxns). I want to use this VAD to send Comfort Noise packets in RTP. But I need to know at least noise level for silence packets. Is there way to get current noise level from USC_G729_VAD_Fxns to use it?

Thank you :)

[Ivan_Ryzhachkin__Int]

Quoting - dmytro.bogovych

Hi all.

I experiment with VAD from G729 (USC_G729_VAD_Fxns). I want to use this VAD to send Comfort Noise packets in RTP. But I need to know at least noise level for silence packets. Is there way to get current noise level from USC_G729_VAD_Fxns to use it?

Thank you :)

Hello Dmytro,
may suggest to experiment with

ippsFilterNoiseDetect*() functionality. It returns squared noise magnitude when noise pattern detected.
regards,
Ivan

[dmytro_bogovych]

Quoting - Ivan Ryzhachkin (Intel)

Hello Dmytro,
may suggest to experiment with

ippsFilterNoiseDetect*() functionality. It returns squared noise magnitude when noise pattern detected.
regards,
Ivan

Thank you :)

I think better solution is to investigate G711 codec sources - as I see it implements G711 Appendix 2 (which describes work with comfort noise).

[Vyacheslav_Baranniko]

Quoting - dmytro.bogovych

Hi all.

I experiment with VAD from G729 (USC_G729_VAD_Fxns). I want to use this VAD to send Comfort Noise packets in RTP. But I need to know at least noise level for silence packets. Is there way to get current noise level from USC_G729_VAD_Fxns to use it?

Thank you :)

Hi,
Once you got to know a 10 ms frame is inactive you can calculate the frameenergy by summing upits samples.
Or it is possibleto use USC_G729I_Fxns to encodeSID frame.
Vyacheslav, IPP speech

[Vyacheslav_Baranniko]

Quoting - dmytro.bogovych

Hi all.

I experiment with VAD from G729 (USC_G729_VAD_Fxns). I want to use this VAD to send Comfort Noise packets in RTP. But I need to know at least noise level for silence packets. Is there way to get current noise level from USC_G729_VAD_Fxns to use it?

Thank you :)

G711 isalso anoption, you are right.
Vyacheslav

[dmytro_bogovych]

Quoting - vbaranni

G711 isalso anoption, you are right.
Vyacheslav

Thank you, guys!

[dmytro_bogovych]

Quoting - vbaranni

Hi,
Once you got to know a 10 ms frame is inactive you can calculate the frameenergy by summing upits samples.
Or it is possibleto use USC_G729I_Fxns to encodeSID frame.
Vyacheslav, IPP speech

To be precise - use of USC_G729I_Fxns will help only if all frames will be processed by this encoder.
If I try to get SID packet only for silence frames (I know about them from USC_G729_VAD_Fxns) - encoder produces SID packet rarely. The reason is speech history, right?

[dmytro_bogovych]

Quoting - vbaranni

G711 isalso anoption, you are right.
Vyacheslav

The question.
ITU document about G711 Appendix II says that SID packet first byte has value from 0 till 127.
The MSB bit in this byte (octet) is zero always.

But as I see from this source code (where SID packet is computed):

[cpp]dst[0] = (Ipp8u)(((anau[0] & 1) << 7) | ((anau[1] & 31) << 2) | ((anau[2] & 15)>>2));
dst[1] = (Ipp8u)(((anau[2] & 3) << 6) | ((anau[3] & 31) << 1));    
[/cpp]

The MSB bit CAN be 1! And it IS 1 in some cases - I see value 0xA0 in first byte very often.

Is it ok?

[Vyacheslav_Baranniko]

Quoting - dmytro.bogovych

To be precise - use of USC_G729I_Fxns will help only if all frames will be processed by this encoder.
If I try to get SID packet only for silence frames (I know about them from USC_G729_VAD_Fxns) - encoder produces SID packet rarely. The reason is speech history, right?

Passingall frames thru G729 you will only get the sameSID sequence as afterG729VAD alone. In case "silence" frame after G729VADare only fed to G729 there is no guaranteeSID sequence will be the same,due to hangover, firstly and noise level averaging, secondly.Nevertheless, G729 is expected to generateSIDs mostly once fed by silence frames only.

USC G711wasdesigned to be equivalent to G729 in terms of SID sequence while bypassing largely G729 encoding pipeline.

Vyacheslav

[Vyacheslav_Baranniko]

Quoting - dmytro.bogovych

The question.
ITU document about G711 Appendix II says that SID packet first byte has value from 0 till 127.
The MSB bit in this byte (octet) is zero always.

But as I see from this source code (where SID packet is computed):

[cpp]dst[0] = (Ipp8u)(((anau[0] & 1) << 7) | ((anau[1] & 31) << 2) | ((anau[2] & 15)>>2));
dst[1] = (Ipp8u)(((anau[2] & 3) << 6) | ((anau[3] & 31) << 1));    
[/cpp]

The MSB bit CAN be 1! And it IS 1 in some cases - I see value 0xA0 in first byte very often.

Is it ok?

There are two different algo'sG711_II is concerned to, one isVAD/DTX (silence compression) and another CNG (comfort noise generation). USC G711 usesVAD/DTX from G729, i.e. able to generate SIDs packets (two bytes long)described in G729/B. CNalgorithmspecified in G711_II but was not implemented in USC.

SID can have MSB bit equal to 1. CN can not.

Vyacheslav