Electrolaryngeal speech enhancement for telephony
US6975984B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 7, 2001 |
| Grant date | Dec 13, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 9, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L2025/937
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A technique for separating an acoustic signal into a voiced (V) component corresponding to an electrolaryngeal source and an unvoiced (U) component corresponding to a turbulence source. The technique can be used to improve the quality of electrolaryngeal speech, and may be adapted for use in a special purpose telephone. A method according to the invention extracts a segment of consecutive values from the original stream of numerical values, and performs a discrete Fourier transform on the this first group of values. Next, a second group of values is extracted from components of the discrete Fourier transform result which correspond to an electrolaryngeal fixed repetition rate, F0, and harmonics thereof. An inverse-Fourier transform is applied to the second group of values, to produce a representation of a segment of the V component. Multiple V component segments are then concatenated to form a V component sample stream. Finally, the U component is determined by subtracting the V component sample stream from the original stream of numerical values.
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