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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2003
Applicant:
Ki Soo Kim, Seoul, KR;
Inventor:
Ki Soo Kim, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 11/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for modulating pitch and identifying gender of a voice signal is provided. The voice modulation apparatus includes an LPC analyzer for obtaining vocal track filter coefficients reflecting characteristics of an input voice signal, a pitch detector for detecting the pitch and the gender of the voice signal, a pitch modulator for modulating the voice signal by applying a predetermined value to a detected value from the pitch detector, and a coder for coding the input signal from to LPC analyzer and to pitch modulator, and for outputting a coded signal.