Method and apparatus for measuring the noise content of transmitted speech
CA 2207866 C · Owner: Medaugh, Raymond Stephen · Inventors: Medaugh, Raymond Stephen; Shaya, Ronald
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A noise filter technique estimates noise in speech that has been processed by Call Multiplication Equipment. The received signal has speech frames and interspersed fill-noise frames inserted at a satellite signal receiving station. The filtering technique removes the fill-noise from the signal. The remaining speech frames are analyzed such that the speech frames having the lowest power values are used to create a histogram of power/frequency. This histogram contains information from which the noise-in-speech power spectrum is derived.
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- Filed June 17, 1997 and granted April 23, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 17, 2017.
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