Complementary filtering technique for subband speech coder design

Abstract

This paper presents a new filtering scheme for splitting speech signals into subbands which results in no aliasing problem when the subband signals are sub-sampled and recombined. The highpass and lowpass filters are an odd-length complementary linear phase filter pair. As a consequence, the highpass filter output can be obtained by subtracting the lowpass filter output from the appropriately delayed input. This produces a factor-of-two reduction in the computation load when compared to the conventional even-length quadrature mirror filter. Another factor-of-two saving in computation load can be gained by using halfband lowpass filters whose every other coefficient is zero. Furthermore, the filters can be designed using well known minimax optimization techniques such as the Remez exchange algorithm and integer programming.