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Sound analyzing apparatus

  • US 4,075,423 A
  • Filed: 04/14/1977
  • Issued: 02/21/1978
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1976
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Sound analysing apparatus for the evaluation of speech including means for extracting from an applied speech signal a required formant waveform;

  • means for identifying frequency components of the required formant in the waveform;

    a first store having a plurality of addressable storage locations each associated respectively with a different predetermined range of frequencies;

    means for adding during each of a succession of predetermined histogram sampling periods of value of unity for each frequency component identified into that one of the storage locations corresponding to the range in which lies the frequency of the identified component and means for producing over a histogram evaluation period comprising a plurality of sampling periods a histogram representation including means for scanning the storage locations in order, to produce for each successive sampling period a progressive total of the values added into the storage locations during a preceding predetermined number of sampling periods;

    means for deriving an indication that a predetermined fraction of the total has been at least equalled and means for registering an address representing the frequency range included in location currently being scanned at the time when the indication occurs.

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