EP1533791A3
Voice/unvoice determination and dialogue enhancement
Abstract
A dialogue enhancing method and apparatus for boosting formants of dialogue zones without changing sound zones are disclosed. The dialog enhancing method comprising: (a) includes calculating line spectrum pair (LSP) coefficients based on linear prediction coding (LPC) from an input signal; , (b) determining whether or not voice zones exist in the input signal on the basis of the calculated LSP coefficients; , and (c) extracting formants from the LSP coefficients according to whether or not the voice zones exist, and boosting the formants.

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- 1533791
- Publication, DOCDB
- 1533791
- Publication, EPODOC
- EP1533791
- Application
- 4105947
- Application, DOCDB
- 04105947
- Application, EPODOC
- EP20040105947
Titles3
- German
- Sprachaktivitätsdetektion und Verbesserung der Sprachverständlichkeit
- English
- Voice/unvoice determination and dialogue enhancement
- French
- Détection d'activité vocale et amélioration de l'intelligibilité de la parole
Classification
- CPC, 4
- G10L21/0208
- G10L21/0364
- G10L25/15
- G10L25/78
- IPC, 5
- G10L21 02
- G10L21 04
- G10L11 00
- G10L11 02
- G10L19 06
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- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Switzerland
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Germany
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Spain
- Finland
- France
- United Kingdom
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Iceland
- Italy
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Monaco
- Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
- Poland
- Portugal
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- Romania
- Sweden
- Slovenia
- Slovakia
- Türkiye
- Extension states, 6
- Albania
- Croatia
- Lithuania
- Latvia
- North Macedonia
- Yugoslavia, later Serbia and Montenegro (until 2006)