“…Also, in contrast with the original method, the muting factor G(n) does not become zero after 320 samples for both sigmoid and raised-cosine functions to offer a great amount of flexibility for the muting curve. As a consequence, these parametric shaping functions, which decrease monotonically, can offer more flexibility to the shape of the muting curve than that of the reference muting curves [21,22]. Since it is well-known that the Other cases class which includes unvoiced, weakly voiced, and voiced signals plays a dominant role in the perceived speech quality of reconstructed speech, we use the parametric shaping functions as the muting curve to the Other cases class only, while (2) is applied to the Transient and UV transition classes.…”