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Voice activity detection

US5276765A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 28, 1992
Grant dateJan 4, 1994
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Expiry dateSep 28, 2012

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L25/00
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Voice activity detector (VAD) for use in an LPC coder in a mobile radio system uses autocorrelation coefficient R.sub.0, R.sub.1 . . . of the input signal, weighted and combined, to provide a measure M which depends on the power within that part of the spectrum containing no noise, which is thresholded against a variable threshold to provide a speech/no speech logic output. The measure is formula (I), where H.sub.i are the autocorrelation coefficients of the impulse response of an Nth order FIR inverse noise filter derived from LPC analysis of previous non-speech signal frames. Threshold adaption and coefficient update are controlled by a second VAD response to rate of spectral change between frames.

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