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Speech specific adaptive transform coder

US4991213A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 26, 1988
Grant dateFeb 5, 1991
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Expiry dateMay 26, 2008

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L25/90
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A transform coder operates on a sampled speech signal transformed from the time domain to a frequency domain to develop pitch information in relation to a given speech signal. The coder segregates groups of information samples into blocks, transforms each block of samples, and generates an auto-correlation function of the transformed signal for each block. Next, the coder determines the pitch period and pitch gain from the auto-correlation function, and determines the striation magnitude and energy from the pitch period and pitch gain. Then a reference pitch model including a number of data points is retrieved from data memory. A striation scaling factor is generated in response to the striation magnitude and energy, and is multiplied by each of the retrieved data points to adaptively generate a pitch model. Finally, the adaptively determined model is sampled to establish the pitch information.

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