REAL TIME PITCH DETECTION BY STREAM PROCESSING

Patent №

US 4,486,900

Granted

1984-12-04

Filed 1982

Owner

BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES, INCORPORATED

Lab

AI components

1

speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

06363470

Continuous stream processing of an input signal to find the autocorrelation function and pitch period is simplied. The input speech signal is sampled at 8 khz, from which the autocorrelation function is formed by multiplying each sample by a stored-delay reduced sequence of up to 30 past samples. The reduced sequence is formed by every fourth sample of input signal gated to storage. Autocorrelation values are sequentially compared by a peak-peaker for maxima, thus further minimizing storage requirements to find the pitch period.

AI classification

Speech0.99
Machine learning0.12
AI hardware0.10
Vision0.06
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES, INCORPORATED

assignment · 39860900

Assignors

COX, RICHARD V., CROCHIERE, RONALD E.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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