Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – One-way audio signal program distribution – Public address system
Patent
1989-11-01
1991-09-03
Kemeny, Emanuel S.
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
One-way audio signal program distribution
Public address system
381 38, G10L 902
Patent
active
050461001
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for detecting a fundamental frequency in speech in a changing speech environment by using adaptive statistical techniques. A statistical voice detector detects changes in the voice environment by classifiers that define certain attributes of the speech to recalculate weights that are used to combine the classifiers in making the unvoiced/voiced decision that specifies whether the speech has a fundamental frequency or not. The detector is responsive to classifiers to first calculate the average of the classifiers and then to determine the overall probability that any frame will be unvoiced. In addition, the detector forms two vectors, one vector represents the statistical average of values that an unvoiced frame's classifiers would have and the other vector represents the statistical average of the values of the classifiers for a voiced frame. These latter calculations are performed utilizing not only the average value of the classifiers and present classifiers but also a vector defining the weights that are utilized to determine whether a frame is unvoiced or not plus a threshold value. A weights calculator is responsive to the information generated in the statistical calculation to generate a new set of values for the weights vector and the threshold value which are utilized by the statistical calculator during the next frame. An unvoiced/voiced determinator then is responsive to the two statistical average vectors and the weights vector to make the unvoiced/voiced decision.
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AT&T Bell Laboratories
Kemeny Emanuel S.
Knepper David D.
Moran John C.
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