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Method of measuring degree of enhancement to voice signal

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A method of measuring the degree of enhancement made to a voice signal by receiving the voice signal, identifying formant regions in the voice signal, computing stationarity for each identified formant region, enhancing the voice signal, identifying formant regions in the enhanced voice signal that correspond to those identified in the received voice signal, computing stationarity for each formant region identified in the enhanced voice signal, comparing corresponding stationarity results for the received and enhanced voice signals, and calculating at least one user-definable statistic of the comparison results as the degree of enhancement made to the received voice signal.

Inventors: 
Cusmariu, Adolf
Patent Number: 
Technical domain: 
IT and Software
FIle Date: 
2006-12-01
Grant Date: 
2010-10-19
Grant time: 
1,418 days
Grant time percentile rank: 
26
Claim count percentile rank: 
5
Citations percentile rank: 
1
'Cited by' percentile rank: 
1
Assignee: 
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY