Patents Assigned to Acapela Group S.A.
  • Patent number: 8862472
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for coding excitation signal of a target speech comprising the steps of: extracting from a set of training normalized residual frames, a set of relevant normalized residual frames, said training residual frames being extracted from a training speech, synchronized on Glottal Closure Instant(GCI), pitch and energy normalized; determining the target excitation signal of the target speech; dividing said target excitation signal into GCI synchronized target frames; determining the local pitch and energy of the GCI synchronized target frames; normalizing the GCI synchronized target frames in both energy and pitch, to obtain target normalized residual frames; determining coefficients of linear combination of said extracted set of relevant normalized residual frames to build synthetic normalized residual frames close to each target normalized residual frames; wherein the coding parameters for each target residual frames comprise the determined coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignees: Universite de Mons, Acapela Group S.A.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Wilfart, Thomas Drugman, Thierry Dutoit