The answer is actually ``not precisely'' for a finite .
Rather, we determine the cofficients that give the
best prediction by minimizing the difference, or error ,
between the actual sample values of the input waveform
and the waveform
re-created using the derived predictors
.
The smaller the average value of the error, also called the residual, the better the set of predictors.
The residual may be used to exactly reconstruct the original signal
by using it as an input to our all-pole filter, that is
When the speech is voiced, the residual is essentially a periodic pulse waveform with the same fundamental frequency as the speech. When unvoiced, the residual is similar to white noise.