Method and system for encoding digital speech information

Details Method and system for encoding digital speech information Method and system for encoding digital speech information

1984-05-11

1988-01-05

Kemeny, Emanuel S.

Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices

One-way audio signal program distribution

Public address system

381 31, G10L 500

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047180870

ABSTRACT:
Method and system for encoding digital speech information to characterize spoken human speech with an optimally reduced speech data rate while retaining speech quality in the audible reproduction of the encoded digital speech information. Markov modeling is applied to quantized speech parameters to represent their time behavior in a probabilistic manner. This is accomplished by representing the quantized speech parameters as finite state machines having predetermined matrices of transitional probabilities from which the conditional probabilities as to the quantized speech parameter values of successive speech data frames are established. The probabilistic description as so obtained is then used to represent the respective quantized values of the speech parameters by a digital code through Huffman coding in which digital codewords of variable length represent the quantized speech parameter values in accordance with their probability of occurrence such that more probable quantized values are assigned digital codewords of a shorter bit length while less probable quantized values are assigned digital codewords of a longer bit length.

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