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Spectral transformation of acoustic signals

US6253172A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 16, 1998
Grant dateJun 26, 2001
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Expiry dateSep 16, 2018

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L19/06
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An improved method of providing a pitch shifted or frequency transformed signal includes frequency scaling the original signal (12) and generating a desired spectrum envelope of the frequency transformed signal, A.sub.s (z) by LPC analysis of the original signal (11). Further the method includes producing an approximation of the spectrum envelope of the frequency scaled signal A.sub.s (z, .beta.) by performing LPC analysis on the original signal (11), obtaining LSFs (13), scaling (15) and transforming the scaled LSFs back to LPC (17). The spectrum envelope of the frequency scaled signal is whitened or flattened by the approximation of the spectrum of the frequency scaled signal and the desired spectrum envelope is added at filter (19) where the transfer characteristics of the filter is ##EQU1##

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