Circuit arrangement and method for detecting and improving a speech component in an audio signal
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1. An audio signal processing circuit, comprising:
- a speech detector that receives a multi-component audio signal including at least a left signal component and a right signal component, and provides a control signal indicative of whether the received audio signal contains speech, wherein the speech detector combines the left and the right signal components to provide a combined signal component and comprises a processing device that detects speech by comparing and processing the combined signal component, the left signal component and the right signal component; and
a speech processor that receives the multi-component audio signal and the control signal, and modifies the received multi-component audio signal if the control signal indicates that the received multi-component audio signal contains speech and provides a processed modified multi-component audio signal that includes (A) a modified left signal component that comprises the sum of (i) the left signal component multiplied by a first factor K1 and (ii) the right signal component multiplied by a second factor K2, and (B) a modified right signal component that comprises the sum of (i) the left signal component multiplied by a third factor K3 and (ii) the right signal component multiplied by a fourth factor K4, and provides the received multi-component audio signal if the control signal indicates that the received audio signal does not contain speech, where the values for K1, K2, K3 and K4 are set as a function of the control signal value;
where the speech processor comprises a speech improvement device configured to modify the speech component of the received audio signal.
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Abstract
An audio processing system includes a speech detector that receives and processes an audio input signal to determine if the input signal includes components indicative of speech, and provides a control signal indicative of whether or not the audio input signal includes speech. A speech processing device receives the audio input signal and processes the audio input signal to improve its quality if the control signal indicates that the audio input signal includes speech.
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19 Claims
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1. An audio signal processing circuit, comprising:
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a speech detector that receives a multi-component audio signal including at least a left signal component and a right signal component, and provides a control signal indicative of whether the received audio signal contains speech, wherein the speech detector combines the left and the right signal components to provide a combined signal component and comprises a processing device that detects speech by comparing and processing the combined signal component, the left signal component and the right signal component; and a speech processor that receives the multi-component audio signal and the control signal, and modifies the received multi-component audio signal if the control signal indicates that the received multi-component audio signal contains speech and provides a processed modified multi-component audio signal that includes (A) a modified left signal component that comprises the sum of (i) the left signal component multiplied by a first factor K1 and (ii) the right signal component multiplied by a second factor K2, and (B) a modified right signal component that comprises the sum of (i) the left signal component multiplied by a third factor K3 and (ii) the right signal component multiplied by a fourth factor K4, and provides the received multi-component audio signal if the control signal indicates that the received audio signal does not contain speech, where the values for K1, K2, K3 and K4 are set as a function of the control signal value; where the speech processor comprises a speech improvement device configured to modify the speech component of the received audio signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A speech detecting and processing method for use with an audio signal processor, comprising:
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receiving a multi-component audio signal including a left signal component and a right signal component; combining the left and the right signal components to obtain a combined signal component; detecting speech components in the received audio signal with the audio signal processor by at least one comparing to each other and processing with each other the left signal component, the right signal component and the combined signal component, and providing a control signal indicative of if the multi-component audio signal contains speech; processing the received audio signal with the audio signal processor if the control signal indicates that the received audio signal contains speech by providing a processed modified multi-component audio signal that includes (A) a modified left signal component that comprises the sum of (i) the left signal component multiplied by a first factor K1 and (ii) the right signal component multiplied by a second factor K2, and (B) a modified right signal component that comprises the sum of (i) the left signal component multiplied by a third factor K3 and (ii) the right signal component multiplied by a fourth factor K4, and provides the received multi-component audio signal if the control signal indicates that the received audio signal does not contain speech, where the values for K1, K2, K3 and K4 are set as a function of the control signal value. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An audio processing system, comprising:
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a speech detector that receives and processes a multi-component audio input signal including at least a left signal component and a right signal component to obtain a combined signal component, and comprises a processing device for at least one of comparing and processing the combined signal component, the left signal component and the right signal component among each another to determine if the audio input signal includes components indicative of speech, and provides a control signal indicative of whether or not the audio input signal includes speech; a speech processing device that receives the audio input signal and processes speech components of the audio input signal to improve its quality if the control signal indicates that the audio input signal includes speech and provides a processed modified multi-component audio signal that includes (A) a modified left signal component that comprises the sum of (i) the left signal component multiplied by a first factor K1 and (ii) the right signal component multiplied by a second factor K2, and (B) a modified right signal component that comprises the sum of (i) the left signal component multiplied by a third factor K3 and (ii) the right signal component multiplied by a fourth factor K4, and provides the received multi-component audio signal if the control signal indicates that the received audio signal does not contain speech, where the values for K1, K2, K3 and K4 are set as a function of the control signal value; and an output coupled to the speech processing device, the output operable to output an audio output signal including at least one of the improved speech components of the audio input signal and substantially unaltered non-speech components of the audio input signal; where the speech processing device further includes a speech improvement device configured to modify the speech component of the received audio input signal; and the control signal is at least one of configured and controlled to at least one of activate and deactivate the speech improvement device depending on the speech content of the audio signal.
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