Inserting watermarks into audio signals that have speech-like properties

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15133825

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A method for a machine or group of machines to watermark an audio signal includes receiving an audio signal and a watermark signal including multiple symbols, and inserting at least some of the multiple symbols in multiple spectral channels of the audio signal, each spectral channel corresponding to a different frequency range. Optimization of the design incorporates minimizing the human auditory system perceiving the watermark channels by taking into account perceptual time-frequency masking, pattern detection of watermarking messages, the statistics of worst case program content such as speech, and speech-like programs.

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TLS CORP1241 SUPERIOR AVE E CLEVELAND OH 44114

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Blesser, Barry Belmont, US 18 194
Dye, Robert Saint Petersburg, US 20 949

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