Utilizing word-to-digital conversion
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1. A method of extremely narrowband communication comprising the steps of:
- converting human speech to electrical signals;
analyzing the electrical signals to provide a plurality of signals representative of a plurality of properties which characterize a human voice;
storing signals representative of a plurality of spoken words;
comparing at least some of the plurality of signals to the stored signals to determine specific words in the human speech and supplying signals representative of the specific words; and
converting the supplied signals representative of specific words to a digital form having a rate of less than 300 bits per second.
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A communications system each end of which includes means for analyzing human speech and comparing each word to prestored words for word and speacker recognition, the message then being digitized along with characteristic properties of the speackers voice to form a signal for transmission having a rate of approximately 75 bits per second, transmitting the digitized message to a remote terminal which converts it to a spoken message in the synthesized voice of the original speaker.
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1. A method of extremely narrowband communication comprising the steps of:
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converting human speech to electrical signals; analyzing the electrical signals to provide a plurality of signals representative of a plurality of properties which characterize a human voice; storing signals representative of a plurality of spoken words; comparing at least some of the plurality of signals to the stored signals to determine specific words in the human speech and supplying signals representative of the specific words; and converting the supplied signals representative of specific words to a digital form having a rate of less than 300 bits per second. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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