Voicing measure for a speech CODEC system
First Claim
1. A frequency domain interpolative CODEC system for low bit rate coding of speech, comprising:
- a linear prediction (LP) front end adapted to process an input signal providing LP parameters which are quantized and encoded over predetermined intervals and used to compute a LP residual signal;
an open loop pitch estimator adapted to process said LP residual signal, a pitch quantizer, and a pitch interpolator adapted to provide a pitch contour within the predetermined intervals; and
a signal processor responsive to said LP residual signal and the pitch contour and adapted to perform the following;
extract a prototype waveform (PW) from the LP residual and the open loop pitch contour for a number of equal sub-intervals within the predetermined intervals;
normalize the PW by said PW'"'"'s gain;
extract measures of periodicity from the normalized PW that are correlated to degrees of periodicity over each predetermined interval;
extract measures of periodicity from open loop parameters derived from the input signal that are correlated to degrees of periodicity over each predetermined interval; and
provide an overall voicing measure for each predetermined interval, said voicing measure characterizing a degree of voicing of said input signal, by combining the measures of periodicity extracted from the open loop parameters and the measures of periodicity extracted from the normalized PW over the predetermined intervals.
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Abstract
A system and method is provided that employs a frequency domain interpolative CODEC system for low bit rate coding of speech which comprises a linear prediction (LP) front end adapted to process an input signal providing LP parameters which are quantized and encoded over predetermined intervals and used to compute a LP residual signal. An open loop pitch estimator adapted to process the LP residual signal, a pitch quantizer, and a pitch interpolator also provides a pitch contour within the predetermined intervals. A voice activity detector adapted to process the LP parameters and the open loop pitch contour over the predetermined intervals is also provided as well as a signal processor responsive to the LP residual signal and the pitch contour and adapted to perform the following functions: extract a prototype waveform (PW) from the LP residual and the open loop pitch contour for a number of equal sub-intervals within the predetermined invervals; normalize the PW by a gain value of the PW; encode a magnitude of the PW; and provide a voicing measure where the voicing measure characterizes a degree of vocing of the input speech signal and is derived from several input parameters that are correlated to degrees of periodicity of the signal over the predetermined intervals. The voicing measure is provided for the purpose of regenerating a PW phase at a decoder; and providing improved quantization of the PW magnitude at an encoder. The voicing measure is encoded jointly with a PW nonstationarity measure vector using a spectrally weighted vector quantizer having a codebook partioned based on a voiced and unvoiced mode.
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10 Claims
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1. A frequency domain interpolative CODEC system for low bit rate coding of speech, comprising:
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a linear prediction (LP) front end adapted to process an input signal providing LP parameters which are quantized and encoded over predetermined intervals and used to compute a LP residual signal; an open loop pitch estimator adapted to process said LP residual signal, a pitch quantizer, and a pitch interpolator adapted to provide a pitch contour within the predetermined intervals; and a signal processor responsive to said LP residual signal and the pitch contour and adapted to perform the following; extract a prototype waveform (PW) from the LP residual and the open loop pitch contour for a number of equal sub-intervals within the predetermined intervals; normalize the PW by said PW'"'"'s gain; extract measures of periodicity from the normalized PW that are correlated to degrees of periodicity over each predetermined interval; extract measures of periodicity from open loop parameters derived from the input signal that are correlated to degrees of periodicity over each predetermined interval; and provide an overall voicing measure for each predetermined interval, said voicing measure characterizing a degree of voicing of said input signal, by combining the measures of periodicity extracted from the open loop parameters and the measures of periodicity extracted from the normalized PW over the predetermined intervals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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