[Speex-dev] Noisy sound quality with Blackfin in WB-mode

[Bernhard Gerlach]

Hi Jean-Marc,

> Can you confirm I'm understanding everything correctly? You encode  
> with
> the same encoder and then decode with either A) blackfin assembly and
> fixed-point or B) fixed-point only on Blackfin. Then A) sounds bad and
> B) sounds good. If you do the same in narrowband, it sounds OK. Is  
> that
> correct? If that's the case, it's *probably* some kind of bug and/or

Yes, that's right, except one thing: I always use the blackfin 
+fixedpoint optimized encoder *and* decoder or the fixedpoint-only  
optimized encoder *and* decoder at one time.  And I do every encoding/ 
decoding on the Blackfin.


> invalid assumption in the blackfin assembly. Could you check if that
> happens on all wideband modes (and none of the narrowband modes)?  
> Also,
> testing with 1.1.10 would help (in case I broke something in svn).

I rechecked the issue with the following combinations with the 1.1.11- 
svn version:
NB-Mode (8kHz):
Complexity = 1, Quality = 1, 5, 9
Complexity = 5, Quality = 1, 5, 9
Complexity = 9, Quality = 1, 5, 9

I also checked the above combinations for the WB (16 KHz) and UWB- 
Mode (32kHz). And I checked everything with 1.1.10 version, too, as  
you suggested.  I checked by encoding+decoding a test speech sample  
for each mode with fixed+blackfin optimizations and by comparing the  
resulting file to the fixed-only-optimized encoded+decoded version of  
the speech sample.

Results: The strange sound persists in all WB and UWB combinations,  
no matter if its the 1.1.11-svn or the 1.1.10 version. No difference  
between blackfin+fixed and fixed-only in NB modes. The sound is  
getting even worse when comparing WB to UWB modes. Also sound seems  
to get worse with raising quality values.


Hope that helps,

Bernhard Gerlach
Technical University Ilmenau
Germany