Electronic system for the secret transmission of audio signals

Abstract

System for the secret transmission of audio signals having at one end a coding arrangement comprising an input low-pass filter which selects the secret audio signals to be transmitted, two parallel signal paths at the output of this filter, each path having a modulator of the phase-inverting type and a further low-pass filter, a stage for generating two modulation signals of the frequencies F.sub.1 and F.sub.2 and a first change-over switch which alternately switches through the output of the two paths in dependence of the state of a binary quasi-random signal, the encoded audio signals to be transmitted being available at the output of the change-over switch, and in which at the other end there is a decoding arrangement comprising a stage for regenerating the modulation signals of the said frequencies F.sub.1 and F.sub.2, a second change-over switch which alternately switches through one of these two modulation signals in dependence on the state of a binary quasi-random signal which is synchronized with the binary quasi-random signal used in the coding arrangement, followed by a demodulator for the audio signals and a low-pass filter for selecting the decoded audio signals.