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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2005
Applicants:
Rajeev Nongpiur, Burnaby, CA;
Phillip A. Hetherington, Port Moody, CA;
Inventors:
Rajeev Nongpiur, Burnaby, CA;
Phillip A. Hetherington, Port Moody, CA;
Assignee:
QNX Software Sytems Co., Ottawa, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 11/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An enhancement system extracts pitch from a processed speech signal. The system estimates the pitch of voiced speech by deriving filter coefficients of an adaptive filter and using the obtained filter coefficients to derive pitch. The pitch estimation may be enhanced by using various techniques to condition the input speech signal, such as spectral modification of the background noise and the speech signal, and/or reduction of the tonal noise from the speech signal.