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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Roberto Manduchi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dulce Ponceleon, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ke-Chiang Chu, Saratoga, CA (US);
Hsi-Jung Wu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
704219 ; 704223 ; 704262 ; 704220 ; 704230 ; 704222 ;
Abstract
Method and system aspects for linear predictive speech encoding are disclosed. These aspects comprise the definition of an error function, the computation of an optimal vector of continuous pitch coefficients together with an optimal pitch, and the weighted vector quantization of the continuous pitch coefficients. The techniques allows the faster computation of the optimal combination pitch--continuous coefficient values without substantial loss of optimal results.