Abstract: A system and method of processing sound signals are disclosed. In one embodiment, a speech coder applies a first sound signal enhancement process to a first part of a sound signal and applies a second sound signal enhancement process to a second part of the sound signal. The sound signal is then coded using the enhanced first part of the sound signal and the enhanced first part of the sound signal and the enhanced sound part of the sound signal. Examples of the portions of the sound signal that are separately processed include an excitation signal component and a spectral component of the sound signal.

Abstract: A system and method of processing sound signals are disclosed. In one embodiment, a speech coder applies a first sound signal enhancement process to a first part of a sound signal and applies a second sound signal enhancement process to a second part of the sound signal. The sound signal is then coded using the enhanced first part of the sound signal and the enhanced first part of the sound signal and the enhanced sound part of the sound signal. Examples of the portions of the sound signal that are separately processed include an excitation signal component and a spectral component of the sound signal.

Abstract: A speech coder comprises a first speech enhancement module receiving a digitized speech signal and producing a first enhanced speech signal, a second speech enhancement module receiving the digitized speech signal and producing a second enhanced speech signal, an analysis module that receives the second enhanced speech signal and produces an analyzed speech signal, a first weighting filter that receives the second enhanced speech signal and the analyzed speech signal and produces a second weighted enhanced signal, a quantizer module that receives the analyzed speech signal and produces a quantized speech signal, a synthesizer module that receives the quantized speech signal and an error signal to produce a synthesized speech output signal and a second weighting filter that receives the synthesized speech output signal to produce a first weighted enhanced signal.

Abstract: A system and method that enhance and code a digitized speech signal by breaking the digitized speech signal into constituent parts. The method comprises applying at least two speech enhancement processes to produce at least two enhanced digitized speech signals and computing a coded speech signal by processing the at least two enhanced digitized speech signals.

Abstract: A speech enhancement system receives noisy speech and produces enhanced speech. The noisy speech is characterized by a spectral amplitude spanning a plurality of frequency bins. The speech enhancement system modifies the spectral amplitude of the noisy speech without affecting the phase of the noisy speech. The speech enhancement system includes a core estimator that applies to the noisy speech one of a first set of gains for each frequency bin. A noise adaptation module segments the noisy speech into noise-only and signal-containing frames, maintains a current estimate of the noise spectrum and an estimate of the probability of signal absence in each frequency bin. A signal-to-noise ratio estimator measures an a-posteriori signal-to-noise ratio and estimates an a-priori signal-to-noise ratio based on the noise estimate.

Abstract: A speech coder separates input digitized speech into component parts on an interval by interval basis. The component parts include gain components, spectrum components and excitation signal components. A set of speech enhancement systems within the speech coder processes the component parts such that each component part has its own individual speech enhancement process. For example, one speech enhancement process can be applied for analyzing the spectrum components and another speech enhancement process can be used for analyzing the excitation signal components.

Abstract: A speech coder separates input digitized speech into component parts on an interval by interval basis. The component parts include gain components, spectrum components and excitation signal components. A set of speech enhancement systems within the speech coder processes the component parts such that each component part has its own individual speech enhancement process. For example, one speech enhancement process can be applied for analyzing the spectrum components and another speech enhancement process can be used for analyzing the excitation signal components.