Implementation of a full duplex 2.4 kbps LPC vocoder on a single TMS-320 microprocessor chip
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
With the commercial availability of high speed digital signal processors, it is now possible to implement all the linear predictive coding (LPC) tasks (excluding D-A/A-D conversion) on a single chip. In this paper, a very small, high quality, full-duplex, 10th order 2.4 kbps LPC vocoder is described. A single Texas Instruments TMS-320 microprocessor performs LPC analysis, pitch detection, synthesis, and data I/O. At the time of writing this paper, a total of 20 off-the-shelf integrated circuits were used occupying two thirds of a 14cm × 18cm wirewrap board (excluding power supply). The total power dissipation is less than 2 watts. The chip count may be reduced by a factor of two by combining the random logic on a semi-custom integrated circuit. When produced commercially, the cost of this vocoder should be considerably less than existing LPC units.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it