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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 1991
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert J McAulay, Lexington, MA (US);
Thomas F Quatieri, Jr, Arlington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L / ; G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
381 31 ; 381 38 ;
Abstract
Encoding techniques and devices are based on a sinusoidal speech representation model. In one aspect of the invention, a pitch-adaptive channel encoding technique for amplitude coding varies the channel spacing in accordance with the pitch of the speaker's voice. In another aspect of the invention, a phase synthesis technique locks rapidly-varying phases into synchrony with the phase of the fundamental. Phase coding techniques which introduce a voice-dependent random phase and a pitch-adaptive quadratic phase dispersion are also performed.