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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2003
Applicants:
Patrick J. Doran, Plantation, FL (US);
Stephen S. Shiao, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Inventors:
Patrick J. Doran, Plantation, FL (US);
Stephen S. Shiao, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 11/04 (2006.01); G10L 21/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A pitch adaptive circuit () includes an equalizer control circuit () that evaluates the pitch of the speech signals that are being processed and depending on the pitch information, the equalizer control circuit () selects an equalizer () to shape the decoded speech signals. By selecting the best equalizer (or) to use based on the pitch information, improvements in audio quality are provided automatically without user intervention.