Jukka Ranta

Pulse pattern excited linear prediction voice coder

Speech coding of the code excited linear predictive type is implemented by providing an excitation vector which comprises a set of a pre-determined number of pulse patterns from a codebook of P pulse patterns, which have a selected orientation and a pre-determined delay with respect to the starting point of the excitation vector. This requires modest computational power and a small memory space, which allows it to be implemented in one signal processor.

Method, device and system for estimating the condition of a user

An improved method for estimating the status of human physiological and/or psychological conditions by observing the values of the vocal tract parameters output from a digital speech encoder. The user (40) speaks to his device (41), which transforms the input speech from analog to digital form, performs speech encoding (42) on the derived digital signal, and provides values of speech coding parameters (43) locally for further analysis. The stored mathematical relation, e.g. the user-specific vocal tract transformation matrix (47) is retrieved from the memory and utilized in the calculation of corresponding condition parameters (45). Based on these calculated parameters, an estimation (48) of the present status of users condition can be derived (48).