Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices – Monitoring/measuring of audio devices – Loudspeaker operation
Patent
1981-09-25
1984-05-15
Grimm, Siegfried H.
Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
Monitoring/measuring of audio devices
Loudspeaker operation
331 78, 179175, G10L 110
Patent
active
044492316
ABSTRACT:
A test signal generator for pseudo-simulated non-intelligible speech. The generator comprises first and second ROM's controlled by first and second address counters driven by a single clock. The first ROM generates digital samples which when decoded produce a random signal having a gaussian amplitude distribution. The second ROM also generates digital samples which when decoded produce a modulating signal having a power spectrum substantially equal to that of the modulation envelope of speech and a wave shape that results in a gamma amplitude distribution of a gaussian amplitude distributed signal. Each cycle of the modulating signal has an identical wave shape but a randomly varying wave period. The output of the second ROM is demodulated in a first digital-to-analog converter and the demodulated output is used to amplitude modulate the output of the first ROM in a second digital-to-analog converter to provide an output signal which is then passed through a band-shaping filter to provide the pseudo-simulated non-intelligible speech at its output.
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Grimm Siegfried H.
Mowle John E.
Northern Telecom Limited
Paxman W. R.
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