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7606711 Audio signal processing device, signal recovering device, audio signal processing method and signal recovering method  
The pitch extracting part generates a pitch waveform signal in a manner making the time interval of the pitch of the input audio sound data to be the same. After the number of samples in each...
7596493 System and method for supporting multiple speech codecs  
A method for performing a search of a codebook is provided. The codebook includes a plurality of tracks each having a plurality of even pulse positions. The method includes partitioning a...
7596492 Apparatus and method for concealing highband error in split-band wideband voice codec and decoding  
An apparatus for concealing a highband error in a spilt-band wideband voice codec in accordance with the present invention is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a lowband LPC coefficient extracting...
7596491 Layered CELP system and method  
Layered (embedded) code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech encoders/decoders with adaptive plus algebraic codebooks applied in each layer with fixed codebook pulses of one layer used in higher...
7596490 Low bit-rate audio encoding  
In a sinusoidal audio encoder a number of sinusoids are estimated per audio segment. A sinusoid is represented by frequency, amplitude and phase. The invention uses a track dependent quantization...
7590525 Frame erasure concealment for predictive speech coding based on extrapolation of speech waveform  
A method and system are provided for synthesizing a number of corrupted frames output from a decoder including one or more predictive filters. The corrupted frames are representative of one segment...
7587315 Concealment of frame erasures and method  
A decoder for code excited LP encoded frames with both adaptive and fixed codebooks; erased frame concealment uses repetitive excitation plus a smoothing of pitch gain in the next good frame, plus...
7587313 Audio coding  
The method creates an audio stream comprising tracks of sinusoidal components linked across a plurality of sequential time segments. Segments in each track are weighted with a normal window (WI, W...
7577567 Multimode speech coding apparatus and decoding apparatus  
Square sum calculator 603 calculates a square sum of evolution in smoothed quantized LSP parameter for each order. A first dynamic parameter is thereby obtained. Square sum calculator 605 ...
7558224 Management of packet-based audio devices within acoustic spaces  
A system includes multiple packet-based communication devices that support audio output and other suitable functionality and an acoustic space management device that manages these devices to...
7548852 Quality of decoded audio by adding noise  
The present invention relates to a method of encoding and decoding an audio signal. The invention further relates to an arrangement for encoding and decoding an audio signal. The invention further...
7525952 Method and apparatus for determining the source of user-perceived voice quality degradation in a network telephony environment  
Techniques for finding the source of perceptual audio degradation in an IP telephony environment provide a hop-by-hop analysis of a network over which IP telephony is laid, and may be performed by...
7523032 Speech coding method, device, coding module, system and software program product for pre-processing the phase structure of a to be encoded speech signal to match the phase structure of the decoded signal  
The invention relates to a method for use in parametric speech coding. In order to enable an improved parametric coding of speech signals, the method comprises a first step of pre-processing a to...
7519532 Transcoding EVRC to G.729ab  
Transcoding from EVRC to G.729ab with LSP parameters interpolated from EVRC to G.729ab, EVRC pitch used as input to G.729ab closed-loop pitch search, and G.729ab fixed codebook pulses found from a...
7496504 Method and apparatus for searching for combined fixed codebook in CELP speech codec  
Provided are a combined, fixed codebook searching method and apparatus used in a code excited linear prediction (CELP) speech codec. The method is used in a code excited linear prediction (CELP)...
7490036 Adaptive equalizer for a coded speech signal  
A speech communication system provides a speech encoder that generates a set of coded parameters representative of the desired speech signal characteristics. The speech communication system also...
7483830 Speech decoder and a method for decoding speech  
A speech decoder comprises a decoder ( 103 ) for converting a linear prediction encoded speech signal into a first sample stream having a first sampling rate and representing a first frequency...
7475011 Greedy algorithm for identifying values for vocal tract resonance vectors  
A method and apparatus identify values for components of a vocal tract resonance vector by sequentially determining values for each component of the vocal tract resonance vector. To determine a...
7472059 Method and apparatus for robust speech classification  
A speech classification technique for robust classification of varying modes of speech to enable maximum performance of multi-mode variable bit rate encoding techniques. A speech classifier...
7472056 Transcoder for speech codecs of different CELP type and method therefor  
A transcoder for use between speech codecs using different Code-Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) type and a method therefor are disclosed. The transcoder includes a decoding unit of an input CELP...
7467083 Data processing apparatus  
The present invention relates to a data processing apparatus capable of obtaining high-quality sound data. A tap generation section 121 generates a prediction tap used for a process in a...
7454328 Speech encoding system, and speech encoding method  
A speech encoding apparatus calculates encoding distortion of a noise-like fixed code vector and multiplies the encoding distortion by a fixed weight corresponding to the noise-like degree of the...
7450699 Method and system for call answer while connected to voice mail  
A method and system for call answer while connected to voice mail includes generating real-time packets for transmission of a message toward a voice mail system. Generation of the real-time packets...
7430507 Frequency domain format enhancement  
A method for enhancing speech prediction coefficient signals, including: a) receiving a set of prediction coefficient signals; b) calculating a set of amplitude spectrum coefficient signals based...
7424423 Method and apparatus for formant tracking using a residual model  
A method of tracking formants defines a formant search space comprising sets of formants to be searched. Formants are identified for a first frame in the speech utterance by searching the entirety...
7379866 Simple noise suppression model  
An approach for efficiently reducing background noise from speech signal in real-time applications is presented. A noisy input speech signal is processed through an inverse filter when the spectrum...
7373298 Apparatus and method for coding excitation signal  
An excitation signal coding apparatus capable of improving an error resilience by changing an excitation vector search method (more specifically, an error minimization criterion during a search)....
7366661 Information extracting device  
The present invention relates to an information extraction apparatus capable of analyzing an acoustic signal with accuracy and high efficiency. An amplitude analysis section 32 determines...
7363217 Method for analyzing energy consistency to process data  
A method for analyzing energy consistency to process data, for use with an electronic apparatus, includes the steps of analyzing energy consistency to process data, performing a data-buffering...
7356465 Perfected device and method for the spatialization of sound  
The invention relates to a computer device comprising a memory 108 for storing audio signals 114 , in part pre-recorded, each corresponding to a defined source, by means of spatial position data...
7353168 Method and apparatus to eliminate discontinuities in adaptively filtered signals  
A method to eliminate discontinuities in an adaptively filtered signal includes filtering a beginning portion of a current signal frame using a past set of filter coefficients, thereby producing a...
7346503 Transmitter and receiver for speech coding and decoding by using additional bit allocation method  
The present invention relates to a transmitter and a receiver for speech coding and decoding by using an additional bit allocation method. The transmitter and the receiver according to the present...
7337109 Multiple step adaptive method for time scaling  
A multiple step adaptive method for time scaling. Synthesizing S 3 [n] signal from signal S 1 [n]signal and S 2 [n]signal. Comprising following steps: (a) calculating a first magnitude of a...
7302386 Focused search method of fixed codebook and apparatus thereof  
There are provided a search method of a fixed codebook, and more particularly, a focused search method and apparatus thereof, for being applied to a speech codec for Voice over Internet Protocol...
7295974 Encoding in speech compression  
Linear predictive system with classification of LP residual Fourier coefficients into two or more overlapping classes, and each class has its own vector quantization codebook(s). The use of strong...
7289953 Apparatus and method for speech coding  
A speech encoder includes an LPC synthesizer that obtains synthesized speech by filtering an adaptive excitation vector and a stochastic excitation vector stored in an adaptive codebook and in a...
7283955 Source coding enhancement using spectral-band replication  
The present invention proposes a new method and apparatus for the enhancement of source coding systems. The invention employs bandwidth reduction ( 101 ) prior to or in the encoder ( 103 ),...
7280960 Sub-band voice codec with multi-stage codebooks and redundant coding  
Techniques and tools related to coding and decoding of audio information are described. For example, redundant coded information for decoding a current frame includes signal history information...
7272555 Fine granularity scalability speech coding for multi-pulses CELP-based algorithm  
A method for speech processing in a code excitation linear prediction (CELP) based speech system having a plurality of modes including at least a first mode and a consecutive second mode. The...
7263481 Method and apparatus for improved quality voice transcoding  
A method and apparatus for a voice transcoder that converts a bitstream representing frames of data encoded according to a first voice compression standard to a bitstream representing frames of...
7260523 Sub-band speech coding system  
An improved sub-band speech coding system is provided by subdividing signals into a lower an higher subband, downsampling the lower subband before coding and coding the higher subband without...
7254534 Method and device for encoding wideband speech  
The speech is sampled in such a way as to obtain successive voice frames each including a predetermined number of samples, and with each voice frame are determined parameters of a code-excited...
7251598 Speech coder/decoder  
A coding parameter control circuit 31 computes a frame length from a bit rate and coding delay, and provides the computed frame length data to a CELP coding circuit 32. Based on the computed...
7233896 Regular-pulse excitation speech coder  
A method for providing synthesized speech using regular-pulse excitation includes a first step ( 300 ) of processing input speech to provide a residual excitation signal. A next step ( 302 )...
7228272 Continuous time warping for low bit-rate CELP coding  
A signal modification technique facilitates compact voice coding by employing a continuous, rather than piece-wise continuous, time warp contour to modify an original residual signal to match an...
7212971 Control apparatus for enabling a user to communicate by speech with a processor-controlled apparatus  
A control apparatus controls the display of text data which includes a speech link that can be activated by spoken command. The shape of a pointing device cursor displayed on a display is then...
7212965 Robust parameters for noisy speech recognition  
A method of automatic processing of noise-affected speech captures and digitizes speech in the form of at least one digitised signal and extracts several time-based sequences or frames...
7209878 Noise feedback coding method and system for efficiently searching vector quantization codevectors used for coding a speech signal  
A system for performing a computationally efficient method of searching through N Vector Quantization (VQ) codevectors for a preferred one of the N VQ codevectors predicts a speech signal to derive...
7206740 Efficient excitation quantization in noise feedback coding with general noise shaping  
In a Noise Feedback Coding (NFC) system operable in a ZERO-STATE condition and a ZERO-INPUT condition, the NFC system including at least one filter having a filter memory, a method of updating the...
7200552 Gradient descent optimization of linear prediction coefficients for speech coders  
An optimization algorithm is provided for linear prediction based speech coding systems. The optimization algorithm minimizes the error between original speech samples and synthesized speech...
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