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Linear Predictive Coding (LPC), also known as LPC-10, FIPS 137 and FED-STD-1015, is a speech encoding standard, or vocoder, used in (secure) telephony. It is a method for digitizing speech by analyzing and storing specific characteristics of it, such as pitch and voiced/voiceless sounds, in such a way that an intelligible signal can be reconstructed (synthesized) later. The stan­dard, fi­nis­hed on 28 November 1984, was developed by the US Department of Defense (DoD) and is based on the earlier STANAG 4198 standard, promulgated by NATO on 13 February 1984 [1].

LPC was used with early voice encryption equipment, such as STU-I, STU-II, KY-57 (VINSON) and Spendex 40, and allows speech compression at low bitrates — typically between 800 and 2400 baud. LPC-10e is a US Government standard that was even used on STU-III terminals, when run­ning at 2400 baud. LPC-10 is an open standard, used and implemented by many manufacturers.

LPC-10 on this website
Secure Telehone Unit STU-I (KY-70)
Secure Telehone Unit (ITT, Northern Telecom)
Motorola STU-II/B SECTEL (NATO-version)
Secure Telehone Unit (Motorola, AT&T, RCA, etc.)
Wide-band Voice and Data Encryption Unit
Narrow-band Voice and Data Terminal
Philips Spendex-10, Narrow-band Voice and Data Terminal
Philips Spendex-40 secure telephone for voice, fax and computer
Philips PNVX secure crypto telephone
Telesecurity Timmann, TST-7698 Digital voice encryptor for HF/VHF/UHF radio
Harris RF-5811 secure voice and data unit
Siemens Crypset 100 crypto phone
Elcrovox 1-4D narrow band voice and data terminal (STU-II compatible)
TCE-500, secrure crypto telephone
CVAS III Secure Telephone
Telsy TX-1020C narrow-band radio voice scrambler and encryptor
TX-1020
Advanced INFOSEC Module
AIM
Embedded COMSEC module
BID/470 (BRAHMS) High-end portable telephone encryptor
Related patents
Specifications
  • Name
    LPC-10
  • Description
    Linear Predictive Coding with 10 coefficients
  • Developer
    NSA
  • Standards
    FIPS 137, FED-STD-1015
  • Year
    1973
  • Bandwidth
    2400 bps
  • Frame
    180 samples, 54 bits, 22.5 ms (i.e. 44.44 frames/sec)
  • Target
    8 kHz sampling rate, 16 bit quantisation
Nomenclature
  • Linear Predictive Coding
  • LPC
  • LPC-10
  • FIPS 137
  • FED-STD-1015
  • STANAG 4198
Usage
  • GSM
  • Shorten
  • MPEG-4 ALS
  • FLAC
  • SILK audio codec
  • Military narrowband communication
Events
  • 1944
    Norbert Wiener: Mathematical Theory of Linear Prediction
  • 1947
    Claude Shannon: Mathematical Theory of Communication (general)
  • 1952
    C. Chapin Cutler, Bernard M. Oliver & Henry C. Harrison:
    work on predictive coding
  • 1955
    Peter Elias: two papers on predictive coding
  • 1966
    Fumitada Itakura (Nagoya University): Linear predictors used in speech analysis
  • 1966
    Shuzo Saito (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone):
    Linear predictors used in speech analysis
  • 1967
    Bishnu S. Atal, Manfred R. Schroeder and John Burg:
    Adaptive Linear Predictor approach, Primciple of maximum entropy
  • 1969
    Itakura & Saito: Partial Correlation (PARCOR)
  • 1969
    Glen Culler: Real-time speech encoding proposal
  • 1969
    Bishnu S. Atal: First presentation of LPC speech coder
  • 1971
    Philco-Ford: Real-time LPC with 16-bit hardware (demonstration)
  • 1972
    Bob Kahn (ARPA) & Jim Forgie (LL) & Dave Walden (BBN):
    First developments in packetized speech (later: VoIP)
  • 1973
    Ed Hofstetter (LL): first real-time 2400 bps LPC
  • 1973
    US Navy: first real-time LPC
  • 1974
    First real-time two-way LPC between Culler-Harrison and LL
    via ARPANET at 3500 pbs
  • 1978
    US Navy becomes technical agent for further LPC development
  • 1978
    Atal, Vishwanath et al. (NBN): first variable-rate LPC algorithm
  • 1978
    Atal & Schroeder (Bell Labs): LPC codec: Adaptive Predictive Coding 1
  • 1985
    Atal & Schroeder: Code-Exited Linear Prediction (CELP)
  1. Based on masking properties of the hman ear. This later became the basis for the perceptual coding technique used in MP3 (1993).
Literature
  1. G.S. Kang & S.S. Everett, Improvement of the Narrowband Linear Predictive Coder
    AD-A124 313. NRL 8645, 27 December 1982.

  2. Caldwell P. Smith, Narrowband (LPC-10) vocoder performance under combined effects of random bit errors and jet Aircraft cabin noise
    AD-A141 333. RADC-TR-83-293, December 1983.

  3. Robert M. Gray, Linear Predictive Coding and the Internet Protocol
    Stanford University, USA. 2010. ISBN 978-1-60198-348-0.

  4. Bishnu S. Atal, The History of Linear Prediction
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, March 2006. pp. 154-157, 161.
References
  1. Wikipedia, FIPS 137
    Retrieved April 2021.

  2. Wikipedia, Linear predictive coding
    Retrieved 24 march 2024.

  3. Wikipedia, Linear prediction
    Retrieved 24 march 2024.
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