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Pitch searching time reducing method for code excited linear prediction vocoder using line spectral pair

Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
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Filing: 1996-09-19
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Granted: 1998-09-22
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Expires: 2016-09-19
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Abstract

Abstract An improved pitch searching time reducing method for a CELP vocoder using a Line Spectral Pair (LSP) frequency which is capable of significantly reducing the pitch search time by separating the speech signal using a first formant frequency of the line spectral pair of the digital type personal communication system, which includes the steps of computing a decimation interval of a pitch search interval using an LSP frequency of a first formant computed by a formant filter so as to compute a preparatory pitch of a given speech; determining a preparatory pitch to be used when searching a pitch by detecting a peak and a valley within each decimation interval; and computing a preparatory pitch by adapting a first formant frequency of an LSP computed by a formant filter with a decimation rate and performing a pitch search with respect to the obtained preparatory pitch.

Inventors

  • 👤 Kyung-Jin Byun
  • 👤 Hah-Yong Yoo
  • 👤 Ki-Chun Han
  • 👤 Jong-Jae Kim
  • 👤 Myung-Jin Bae

Bibliographic Details

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CPC Classifications
H; H03; H03M; H03M7/00; G; G10; G10L; G10L19/00; G10L19/04; G10L19/06; G10L19/07; G10L2019/0001; G10L2019/0011; G10L25/00; G10L25/03; G10L25/15

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 3
Claim 1
Independent Claim 110 words
A method for searching a pitch in a CELP coding method, said method comprising the steps of: computing a decimation interval of a pitch search interval using a Line Spectral Pair (LSP) frequency of a first formant computed by a formant filter so as to compute a preparatory pitch of a given speech; determining a preparatory pitch to be used when searching a pitch by detecting a peak and a valley within each decimation interval; and computing a preparatory pitch by adapting a first formant frequency of an LSP computed by a formant filter with a decimation rate and performing a pitch search with respect to the obtained preparatory pitch.
Claim 2
Independent Claim 110 words
A method for searching a pitch in a CELP coding method, said method comprising the steps of: computing a decimation interval of a pitch search interval using a Line Spectral Pair (LSP) frequency of a first formant computed by a formant filter so as to compute a preparatory pitch of a given speech; determining a preparatory pitch to be used when searching a pitch by detecting a peak and a valley within each decimation interval; and computing a preparatory pitch by adapting a first formant frequency of an LSP computed by a formant filter with a decimation rate and performing a pitch search with respect to the obtained preparatory pitch.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 76 words
The method of claim 1, wherein said decimation interval is obtained by an expression D 1 =F 1 -1 * 0.9 when the number of one period samples F 1 -1 of the first formant frequency is greater than or equal to 23 sample values, and is obtained by an expression of D I =20 when the number of one period samples F 1 -1 of the first formant frequency is smaller than 23 sample values.

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