Hello Imran,

What mode are you using?  There isn't much frame-frame memory in Codec 2 
(e.g. prediction), in modes like 1300 there is none.

Are you sure the bit-alignment remains correct when you remove frames?

- David

On 20/07/16 05:51, Imran wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been experimenting with Codec2 for voice reconstruction.  I've
> found something odd.
>
> I have a ~2 second long wav file, 8 Khz, 16 bit pcm, mono.  I can encode
> this file into codec2 no problem.
> The first 1.3 seconds is silence.  The mic is on, but in a quiet room
> with no noise.  The wav file spectogram shows a flat line, near 0, with
> just a little white noise, for these 1.3 seconds, followed by a quiet
> envelope of speech sounds.
>
> So, I encode the wav file into codec2, decode it and playback.  Sounds
> fine.
> Then, I start deleting frames at the head of the encoding.  So, I delete
> frame 0, then frame 1 .. frame 15.  That's about 300 ms of sound I've
> removed that has no human sounds in it -- just mic whitenoise.
>
> Then, something weird happens.
> While there's still a lot of silence in the playback, when playback
> reaches the speech, the voice is noticeably degraded.
>
> I can delete 10 frames, no problem.  When I delete more than 10,
> degradation starts, and increases as I delete more frames.
>
> Anyone have any hints on why?
>
> Thanks,
> Imran
>

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