Stacked causal convolutional autoencoder based speech compression method

Abstract

This study proposes a speech compression method based on one-dimensional convolutional autoencoder and residual vector quantization. The proposed method offers different compression ratios at low bit rates. Speech quality evaluation metric (PESQ) was used to test the performance of the proposed method. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a PESQ value of 1.903 for 2.5 kbps and 2.24 for 5 kbps.