Enhancing Receiver Intelligibility in Voice Communication Devices

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20110054889A1
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12941827

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The intelligibility of speech signals is improved in the many situations where a voice signal is communicated or stored. Means and methods are disclosed for developing a scheme with high voice signal intelligibility without sacrifice of voice quality. The disclosed method comprises certain steps, including, but not limited to: Learning the noise on near-end side and enhancing the far-end voice as a function of the noise level on the near-end side. The disclosed method and apparatus are especially useful to increase the intelligibility of the cell phone's loudspeaker output. The invention includes the processing of an input speech signal to generate an enhanced intelligent signal. In frequency domain, the FFT spectrum of the speech received from the far-end is modified in accordance with the LPC spectrum of the local background noise to generate an enhanced intelligent signal. In time domain, the speech is modified in accordance with the LPC coefficients of the noise to generate an enhanced intelligent signal.

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Berstein, Alberto D Cupertino, US 16 413
Konchitsky, Alon Santa Clara, US 69 982
Kulakcherla, Sandeep Santa Clara, US 15 361
Ribble, William Martin San Jose, US 10 345

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