2-D processing of speech

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Intellectual Property

ID:		9971L
IP Type:		Licensable Technology
Title:		2-D processing of speech
Inventor:		Quatieri, Jr., Thomas F
Summary:		Acoustic signals are analyzed by two-dimensional (2-D) processing of the one-dimensional (1-D) speech signal in the time-frequency plane. The short-space 2-D Fourier transform of a frequency-related representation (e.g., spectrogram) of the signal is obtained. The 2-D transformation maps harmonically-related signal components to a concentrated entity in the new 2-D plane (compressed frequency-related representation). The series of operations to produce the compressed frequency-related representation is referred to as the "grating compression transform" (GCT), consistent with sine-wave grating patterns in the frequency-related representation reduced to smeared impulses. The GCT provides for speech pitch estimation. The operations may, for example, determine pitch estimates of voiced speech or provide noise filtering or speaker separation in a multiple speaker acoustic signal.
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URL:		http://www.ipvisioninc.com/findurl.php?uid=mitDossier:9971L
Contact:		Jose Estabil
Organization:		Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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