System and method to reduce speech delay and improve voice quality using half speech blocks

• Main Author: EJZAK, RICHARD PAUL
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 30.08.2006
• Subjects: ACOUSTICS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; MULTIPLEX COMMUNICATION; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

A system and method for wireless communication using half speech blocks which results in half the number of coded bits as a full speech block after coding. The half speech block can be created with a lower speech rate mode of an adaptive multi-rate vocoder. The reliability of the first speech frame...