Title:
APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCEMENT OF SPEECH
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2008090541
Kind Code:
B1
Abstract:
A method for improving the intelligibility of an incoming telephone signal, including boosting loudness of at least one band of poorly heard frequencies of the signal within at least one band of intensities of the signal, the band lying below a predetermined intensity level at which telephone standard conformance testing is performed, thereby to generate a differentially boosted telephone signal. Alternatively or in addition, intelligibility of sibilants in a narrow band telephone signal is enhanced, by doubling the sampling rate of the narrow band signal by interpolation, thereby to provide a narrow band interpolated signal, generating a harmonic extrapolation signal by harmonically extrapolating from the narrow band interpolated signal thereby to estimate the missing portions of the telephone signal, the harmonic extrapolation comprising a sequence of pulses located at peaks of the interpolated signal, generating a missing energy estimator measure estimating energy missing at high frequency bands of the telephone signal, continuously modulating the amplitude of the pulses in said sequence of pulses based on said missing energy estimator measure, thereby to generate a modulated signal, passing the modulated signal through a shaping filter thereby to obtain a shaped signal, and summing the shaped signal with the interpolated signal.
Inventors:
GREISS ISRAEL (IL)
GUR ARIE (IL)
GUR ARIE (IL)
Application Number:
PCT/IL2008/000017
Publication Date:
November 20, 2008
Filing Date:
January 03, 2008
Export Citation:
Assignee:
DSP GROUP LTD (IL)
GREISS ISRAEL (IL)
GUR ARIE (IL)
GREISS ISRAEL (IL)
GUR ARIE (IL)
International Classes:
G01L21/02; G10L25/93
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