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Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014

Filed:

Jul. 08, 2008
Applicants:

Itzhak Shperling, Bnei Brak, IL;

Sergey Bondarenko, Ramat-Gan, IL;

Eitan Koren, Raanana, IL;

Yosi Rahamim, Tel Aviv-Yaffo, IL;

Tomer Yablonka, Meitar, IL;

Inventors:

Itzhak Shperling, Bnei Brak, IL;

Sergey Bondarenko, Ramat-Gan, IL;

Eitan Koren, Raanana, IL;

Yosi Rahamim, Tel Aviv-Yaffo, IL;

Tomer Yablonka, Meitar, IL;

Assignee:

Motorola Solutions, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/02 (2013.01); G10L 11/02 (2006.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); G10L 21/0316 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/78 (2013.01); G10L 21/02 (2013.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); G10L 21/0316 (2013.01);
Abstract

A voice activity detector () includes a frame divider () for dividing frames of an input signal into consecutive sub-frames, an energy level estimator () for estimating an energy level of the input signal in each of the consecutive sub-frames, a noise eliminator () for analyzing the estimated energy levels of sets of the sub-frames to detect and eliminate from enhancement noise sub-frames and to indicate remaining sub-frames as speech sub-frames, and an energy level enhancer () for enhancing the estimated energy level for each of the indicated speech sub-frames by an amount which relates to a detected change of the estimated energy level for a current speech sub-frame relative to that for neighboring speech sub-frames.


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