Low bit-rate coding of unvoiced segments of speech
US6820052B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 17, 2002 |
| Grant date | Nov 16, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 9, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L25/21
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A low-bit-rate coding technique for unvoiced segments of speech includes the steps of extracting high-time-resolution energy coefficients from a frame of speech, quantizing the energy coefficients, generating a high-time-resolution energy envelope from the quantized energy coefficients, and reconstituting a residue signal by shaping a randomly generated noise vector with quantized values of the energy envelope. The energy envelope may be generated with a linear interpolation technique. A post-processing measure may be obtained and compared with a predefined threshold to determine whether the coding algorithm is performing adequately.
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