Speex dev - Nov 2006 - Operation with continuous tone

During hardware and network impairment testing, I sometimes just hold down a
DTMF key to keep the audio busy.  I have found that if I restart the receiver
while the transmitter is still encoding DTMF, the receiver plays out a different
tone, until the DTMF key goes off an on again.

Also, today I captured some Speex frames during a tone (but not including the
start of the tone).  When I later fed these into the decoder, I got mostly
silence with some noise.

Is this behavior expected?  I suspect it is, and I understand that this is not a
real-world situation.

This testing was done with 1.2beta1, 8KHz, 8kbps, TI C55 DSP, no preprocessor or
echo canceler.

Thanks,

Jim
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Jim Crichton wrote:
> During hardware and network impairment testing, I sometimes just hold
> down a DTMF key to keep the audio busy.  I have found that if I restart
> the receiver while the transmitter is still encoding DTMF, the receiver
> plays out a different tone, until the DTMF key goes off an on again.
>  
> Also, today I captured some Speex frames during a tone (but not
> including the start of the tone).  When I later fed these into the
> decoder, I got mostly silence with some noise.
>  
> Is this behavior expected?  I suspect it is, and I understand that this
> is not a real-world situation.
It's a bit funny, but I'm not too surprised. what happens is that with
these signals, the prediction gain is so big that there's nearly no need
for and "innovation" (fixed codebook) signal. When you reset the
decoder, the states become out of sync until the prediction gains drop.
You can always play with the gain control if you want to limit the
effect. Right now, I've got

   if (cumul_gain > 262144)
      max_gain = 31;

in ltp.c around line 360. You can reduce the value (especially the first
one) and see what it does. Most likely it'll improve in the situation
you're describing at the price of a slight deterioration in the normal case.

	Jean-Marc