Global Patent Index - EP 1850328 A1

EP 1850328 A1 20071031 - Enhancement and extraction of formants of voice signals

Title (en)

Enhancement and extraction of formants of voice signals

Title (de)

Verstärkung und Extraktion von Sprachsignalformanten

Title (fr)

Renforcement et extraction de formants de signaux de parole

Publication

EP 1850328 A1 20071031 (EN)

Application

EP 06013126 A 20060626

Priority

  • EP 06008675 A 20060426
  • EP 06013126 A 20060626

Abstract (en)

A method for extracting the formants of an audio signal comprises the following steps: a.) applying a frequency conversion on an audio signal in order to determine the envelope of the signal, b.) enhancing the formant tracks via filtering in the spectral domain.

IPC 8 full level

G10L 21/02 (2006.01); G10L 25/15 (2013.01)

CPC (source: EP)

G10L 21/0364 (2013.01); G10L 25/15 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

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  • [A] POTAMIANOS A ET AL: "Speech formant frequency and bandwidth tracking using multiband energy demodulation", ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, 1995. ICASSP-95., 1995 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DETROIT, MI, USA 9-12 MAY 1995, NEW YORK, NY, USA,IEEE, US, vol. 1, 9 May 1995 (1995-05-09), pages 784 - 787, XP010625350, ISBN: 0-7803-2431-5

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR

Designated extension state (EPC)

AL BA HR MK YU

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 1850328 A1 20071031; JP 2007293285 A 20071108

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 06013126 A 20060626; JP 2007061984 A 20070312