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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 1986

Filed:

Apr. 21, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:

Robert J Sluijter, Eindhoven, NL;

Hendrik J Kotmans, Eindhoven, NL;

Assignee:

U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
381 49 ;
Abstract

Speech analysis system in which segments of speech are analyzed. For the voiced/unvoiced decision use is made of the average magnitude or waveform intensity of successive speech segments. Basically a voiced decision is made when the waveform intensity increases monotonically over several segments by more than a given factor. An unvoiced decision is made if the waveform intensity drops below a given fraction of the maximum waveform intensity in the current voiced period. Refinements in the decisions are made by the use of fixed and adaptive thresholds.


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