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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1997
Jian-Cheng Huang, Lake Worth, FL (US);
Floyd Simpson, Lantana, FL (US);
Xiaojun Li, Boynton Beach, FL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A pitch determiner (414) for use with a speech analyzer includes a pitch function generator (414) which generates a plurality of pitch components representing a pitch function for one or more sequential segments of speech. which are represented by a predetermined number of digitized speech samples. A pitch enhancer (1116) enhances the pitch function of a current segment of speech utilizing the pitch function of one or more sequential segments of speech to generate a plurality of enhanced pitch components. A pitch detector (1118) detects the pitch of the current segment of speech by determining the pitch of an enhanced pitch component having a largest amplitude of the plurality of enhanced pitch components.