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US3723667A US00214615A US3723667DA US3723667A US 3723667 A US3723667 A US 3723667A US 00214615 A US00214615 A US 00214615A US 3723667D A US3723667D A US 3723667DA US 3723667 A US3723667 A US 3723667A
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  • a vowel detector is provided and is coupled to the drive means power supply for detecting the initiation and continuing presence of [56] References cued vowel sounds in speech signals.
  • the vowel detector is UNITED STATES PATENTS adapted to regularly and periodically interrupt the drive means power supply for certain predetermined 2,411,501 ll/l946 Brubaker ..l79/l00.l VC time intervals in response to the initiation and conn' gl et g/ 3 92 tinued presence of vowel sounds in the input.
  • FIG 3 I FREQUENCY IN H! -24 Y L I l I I I I I I 62.5 I25 250 500 I,000 2,000 4,000 8,000 I5,000
  • PAIENIEDIIIRZ'IIUYS SIIEEI 4 BF 7 VOWEL PAUSE --0R
  • SHEET 5 [IF 7 MANUAL INTERRUPT r LOGIC o I LEVEL I TAPE E SPEECH ONE- TRANSPORT o DETECTOR SHOT MINIMUM PAUSE LENGTH OF PAUSE DEiEETED'ADJUST lNSERTED-ADJUST PLAYBACK SPEAK-ER OR ELECTRONICS HEADPHONE REALIZATION OF SPEECH EXPANDER ELAPSED TIME ON RECORDING I I N SEC.
  • FIG 9 PATENTEDmzmra 3723,66?
  • the present invention relates generally to a means for recording and compressing speech sound, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for recording and selectively deleting pauses as well as certain portions of normal speech sound from the recording. It has been found that controlled and selective deletion of certain portions of normal speech render the recorded message highly intelligible, even when compressed to a time of less than one-half of the actual speech.
  • the speech input by periodically discarding a fixed segment of the input and bringing the ends of the retained input together to make a continuous, time-shortened signal. If the length of the retained segment is sufficiently long with respect to the fundamental pitch period of the voice, then the voice will retain most of its natural quality. The length of deleted segment must be sufficiently long with respect to the retained segment so as to effect the desired or required time compression, but not so long so as to obscure the important transitional elements or consonants in speech which are normally of short duration.
  • the input medium must either be played in at a faster than normal rate, or the alternative, the output must be arranged to be played back after processing at an increased rate.
  • the device described by Fairbanks et al. attains the necessary frequency shifting by utilizing a rotating head assembly.
  • Other devices utilizing similar techniques may employ tapped delay lines in which the input is provided from tapes which are being sampled at a suitable rate to receive the desired shift and bring the ends of the retained segments together.
  • a tape recording device is employed utilizing the speech input from a microphone, phonograph, tape recorder, or other similar structures which function in real-time, with a time-compressed reproduction being produced which may be played back on any standard playing apparatus.
  • the structure includes a recording means for receiving and recording speech signals from an input, with drive means being provided for the recording means, and with a power supply being coupled to the drive means.
  • Selective deletion of portions of the speech sound is accomplished by a substantial elimination of pauses, as well as a means for eliminating periodic portions of vowel sounds.
  • the apparatus of the present invention permits compression of speech to be undertaken to a substantial degree, with intelligible results being obtained with a compression providing a resultant play-back time of less than about 30 percent of the original speech time.
  • the apparatus of the present invention provides a means for expanding recorded speech as well.
  • Prior techniques included the use of a slow play-back with a resulting frequency shift, but changes in pitch make the speech unintelligible if slow rates are employed. While systematic repetition of short segments of recorded speech may be utilized to preserve the pitch, the character of such a recording is diminished because of apparent breaks in the speech provided at arbitrary points.
  • the apparatus of the present invention may function by selectively inserting additional pauses where pauses will normally occur, and thus allow play-back at the recorded time or greater, resulting in minimal, if any, loss in intelligibility.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the fundamental components utilized in a speech compressor apparatus prepared pursuant to the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is a characteristic plot of frequency versus relative amplitude for the pre-filter structure utilized in connection with the present invention
  • FIG. 3 is a plot of the frequency versus the relative amplitude for the spectrum shaping apparatus of the speech detector portion of the apparatus
  • FIG. 4 is a plot of the frequency versus relative amplitude for the spectrum shaping for the vowel detector
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a speech detector system which may be employed in the apparatus utilized to practice the present invention, and capable of delivering a response curve similar to that shown in FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the vowel detector which may be utilized to achieve the resultant curve shown in FIG. 4;
  • FIG. 7 is a typical timing diagram showing how speech-compression is achieved through a combination of pause deletion and vowel shortening
  • FIG. 8 is a-block diagram of a speech expansion structure which may be utilized in connection with the apparatus of the present invention.
  • FIG. 9 is a timing diagram showing how speech expansion is attained through the expander system shown in FIG. 8;
  • FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of a vowel chopper which may be employed in connection with the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 l is a schematic diagram illustrating the pause indicator which may be utilized in connection with the apparatus of the present invention
  • FIG. 12 is a compression (or expansion) meter which may be utilized in connection with the apparatus of the present invention, and particularly for achieving an adjustable compression (or expansion) with a visual indication of the extent of compression;
  • FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram of, a portion of the speech expander concept illustrated in FIGS. 8 and 9.
  • FIG. 1 of the drawings wherein the speech compressor apparatus fabricated pursuant to the present invention is illustrated in block diagram form.
  • the system includes an input 20 which delivers a speech signal to a preamplifier 21.
  • the preamplified signal then passes to the pre-filter 22, and thence to a vowel detector system 23 and a speech detector 24.
  • the speech detector is, in turn, coupled to tape transport 25, so as to interrupt flow of power to the tape transport upon occurrence of a pause in the speech.
  • the output of vowel detector 23 is delivered to vowel chopper 26, and ultimately to tape transport 25 where the power supply for the tape transport is controllably regulated by vowel chopper 26.
  • the minimum pause to be retained may be adjustably preset in the speech detector.
  • the amount of vowel compression may be adjustably set in vowel chopper 26.
  • a pause indicator, either visual or audible, such as is illustrated in FIG. 1 at 27 and 28 may also be employed if desired.
  • a visual indication of the compression occurring in the speech signal is provided as indicated at 29.
  • the record electronic section 30 represents a bias oscillator, record amplifier and record driver.
  • the purpose of this portion of the system is to supply the appropriate electrical signal to the record and erase heads of a tape recorder, when a tape recorder is being employed.
  • Such electronic systems are well known in the industry and are commercially available.
  • the tape transport 25 is indicated as having a fast start/stop capability. This transport incorporates a read/write head, erase head, as well as drive means for moving the tape across the heads.
  • a power supply is provided for the drive means, with the power supply being actuated electrically for starting and stopping the tape.
  • the tape start-up time from full stop to full speed should be no greater than about 40 milliseconds for pause shortening operations, and no greater than about 20 milliseconds for vowel shortening. Start-up times of about 30 milliseconds and 10 milliseconds respectively are preferred. Furthermore, the stop time from full speed to full stop must be substantially the same. Tape transports having such start/stop capabilities are commercially available, and are widely used in the electronic data processing industry.
  • an important feature of the present invention is the generation of a control signal for the power supply to control the drive means for the recording mechanisms. As indicated, this signal is based on pause elimination and vowel shortening.
  • speech signals are recorded by way of the tape transport whenever the control signal is on. Such a signal exists whenever an appropriate voltage or current level is available to place the transport in the operational mode.
  • the control signal When a speech signal is not present, the control signal will not be present and the transport will not be moving the tape.
  • a speech signal is detected and it is not a vowel sound, then the transport is operative and tape is being carried across the record head.
  • a speech signal is present and it is ascertained that it is a vowel sound, then a first predetermined portion of the sound is recorded, and thereafter the sound is recorded on a periodic, cyclic, or chopped" basis.
  • a vowel sound is recorded for the first 1 seconds, and for the next t seconds, the sound is not being recorded. Thereafter, if the vowel sound is continuing, the next t seconds are recorded, followed by a period of t seconds of no recording. This cycle continues until the speech sound becomes a non-vowel in which case it is fully recorded, or, in the alternative, until the speech signal is no longer present in which case the power supply is interrupted and the transport stops.
  • the input signal derived from a microphone, tape head, phonograph, radio or other transducer providing an electrical signal representing the speech sound.
  • This signal is initially amplified in the preamplifier 21 to bring it up to standard levels, such as, for example, a peak at O-VU at the record head.
  • the signal is preferably filtered. It has been found that the filter utilized should have the characteristics shown in the diagram of FIG. 2, with frequencies below about 250 Hz being reduced to eliminate hum and rumble, and to insure that the envelope detector doesnot follow the natural pitch-period resonance of certain speakers. Furthermore, frequencies substantially. above approximately 6,000 B2 are reduced or eliminated in order to minimize the effects of hiss and background room noise.
  • This filtered signal is then passed into the vowel detector and speech detector, as indicated.
  • FIG. 5 of the drawings wherein a typical speech detector system is illustrated.
  • This detector includes components for accomplishing three basic functions, spectrum shaping, envelope detection, and threshold detection.
  • Spectrum shaping is necessary in order that low energy speech sounds necessary for good intelligibility, are weighted the same as the high energy vowel sounds.
  • the weighting shown in FIG. 3 of the drawings has been found to provide a nearly flat spectrum at the output of the spectrum shaping circuit for most speakers.
  • Capacitor 35 charges rapidly when'speech energy is present, and when the voltage reaches a threshold (about 2 volts for the circuit shown), the output signal goes to a logical level indicating speech being present.
  • variable resistor 37 When a pause occurs, transistor 36 is turned off, and the charge on capacitor 35 discharges through variable resistor 37. When the voltage falls below a second threshold, in this case about 0.7 volts, the output signal immediately drops to a level indicating speech being absent. The circuit indicates that the time to reach this threshold determines the length of the pause that is retained, and accordingly adjustment of variable resistor 37 may be utilized to control this time. In the circuit illustrated in FIG. 5, it is simple to utilize times as short as 10 milliseconds or less, or utilize times as long as l0s of seconds or even longer. When a signal is again present, capacitor 35 charges and an output is indicated.
  • FIG. 6 of the drawings wherein the schematic illustration of the vowel detector is shown.
  • vowel sounds have their primary energy (first formants) between about 250 and 800 Hz.
  • Most consonants have their primary energy in frequencies above approximately 1,000 I-Iz.
  • voice signals are filtered by the vowel spectrum selector, the circuit shown in FIG. 6.
  • This filter has the characteristic as is indicated in FIG. 4, and provides energy in the area of between about 250 Hz and 800 Hz.
  • the output of this filter will provide consonant sounds having voltage levels that are 30 db or lower in intensity than vowel sounds.
  • the envelope detector and threshold device operate similarly to the speech detector discussed above, with one important difference being that when a vowel sound ends, the circuit is designed so that the no-vowel level appears at the output within less than about 20 milliseconds delay. It is, of course, necessary to retain a portion of the vowel sound, hence the output of the vowel detector goes to the vowel chopper shown in FIG. 10.
  • the purpose of this circuit of FIG. 10 is to produce an output level for the power supply to the drive means for a period of t seconds, and interrupt this power for the next succeeding seconds alternately as is illustrated in FIG. 7 until the vowel sounds terminate. When the vowel sounds terminate, the output again returns to a level indicating no vowels present.
  • the system illustrated in FIG. 10 consists of two one-shot multivibrators and several logic gates.
  • the time constant R C, in the first one-shot multivibrator determines the time period for t and the time constant R, C, in the second one-shot multivibrator determines the timeperiod t,.
  • the percent of the vowel sound that is deleted is, of course, equivalent to t /(t, t )X 100.
  • the time I should be chosen to conmin at least several cycles of the lowest resonant voice sound anticipated for the device, this frequency typically being on the order of 100 Hz, and accordingly having a period of 10 milliseconds.
  • t should be at least about 30 milliseconds.
  • t should be smaller than the shortest vowel sounds so some shortening will, in fact, occur. In general, vowel sounds are seldom shorter than about milliseconds for most speakers.
  • the time t is selected in conjunction with t, in order to obtain the desiredvowel noted that the output of the vowel chopper and the speech detector are arranged in AND configuration to form the control signal to the drive means power supply. This is illustrated in FIG. 7.
  • the control signal is off whenever speech is absent or during the time t when vowels are present in the speech signal.
  • This control signal activates the tape recorder sothat the signal derived from the vowel detector and its chopper element, together with the speech detector, are utilized to activate the recorder and interrupt or stop the recorder as appropriate.
  • any style of recorder may be utilized, including magnetic tape, wire, disc, or the like, the primary requirement being that it have a capability of starting and stopping rapidly, as indicated hereinabove.
  • the signal level to the system is set at the preamplifier 21, as indicated, so that the recorder peaks are approximately at O-VU, as a standard practice.
  • the preamplifier is, of course, a standard type structure which is commer cially available.
  • the level set into the controller determines the signallevels that will activate the speech and vowel detectors.
  • this level can be set so that signals as low as 30 db below O-VU activate the speech and vowel detectors.
  • this level must be set so that such noise does not trigger the speech and vowel detectors, for example, the arrangement being such that only signals at db below O-VUor greater will trigger the speech and vowel detectors.
  • FIG. 11 A technique to accomplish such an arrangement is illustrated in FIG. 11.
  • the light driver is activated to light a lamp when the speech indicator is off.
  • an audible tone may be generated utilizing the oscillator as illustrated. It will be appreciated that any form of oscillator will suffice for generating an audible tone.
  • the oscillator When no signal is present at the output of the speech detector, the oscillator will be activated so as to generate theaudible tone at this time. The resulting tone is available by way of a speaker or head phone to the operator. This arrangement is illustrated in FIG.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates a timing diagram showing the method of approach for speech expansion.
  • the speech signal which is being played from a recorded medium is monitored utilizing the speech detector, and when speech is absent, as indicatedby the detector, a control signal is generated which stops the play-back of the recorded signal for a period of time t,, whereupon play-back resumes. The play-back continues until the speech detector goes from a speech indication level to a speech absence level, whereupon the process is repeated.
  • FIG. 8 One method of realizing this method of speech expansion pursuant to the present invention is shown in the block diagram of FIG. 8. In this embodiment, a tape transport is in the play-back mode and the signal to be expanded is recorded on a magnetic tape.
  • the tape head picks up the recorded speech signal and on the one hand it is passed through the usual play-back electronics, and presented to the listener by way of a speaker or head phone. On the other hand, it is also played into-the speech detector described in detail hereinabove, whereupon the output of the speech detector is on when speech is present, and off when speech is absent. When this output signal ceases, a one-shot multivibrator is triggered which produces a control signal. Normally the output of this one-shot multivibrator indicates that the transport is in the operational mode.
  • the one-shot multivibrator When the speech detector output goes from an indication of speech to no-speech, the one-shot multivibrator is triggered and the control signal is lost, with the transport stopping for a period of seconds, after which the transport resumes normal play-back until the speech detector output again falls to a no-speech level, whereupon the process is repeated.
  • FIG. 13 A possible method of generating the interval of time of t, seconds is shown in FIG. 13.
  • Two methods are provided foradjusting the amount of expansion. The first of these is by changing the time constant R C in FIG. 13, thus changing the time It is appreciated that with this circuit, one is able to vary t from as low as about 20 milliseconds to as long as several seconds or more. Of course, the longer t the more the speech is expanded-
  • the second method of varying the amount of expansion is simply by adjusting the minimum pause before the speech detector indicates a condition of no speech. This is accomplished by adjusting R C of FIG. 5. If this. time constant is sufficiently long, then short pauses will not be detected and hence not expanded, and the amount of expansion will be decreased. If even the very shortest pauses are detected (R C of FIG. 5)
  • the drive means and power supply for the recording means are standard and conventional in the art. Obviously, battery or AC driven units may be employed.
  • the pause elimination and vowel shortening occurs by means of controlling the current flow from the power supply to the drive means.
  • Means for recording and selectively deleting portions of normal speech sound comprising:
  • a. input means a. input means, recording means for receiving and recording speech signals from said input means, drive means for said recording means, and a power supply delivering energyto said drive means;
  • speech detector means coupled to said drive means power supply for detecting the presence of a speech signal in said input means and for energizing said drive means power supply only in response to the presence of a speech signal therein;
  • vowel detector means coupled to said drive means power supply for detecting the initiation and continuing presence of vowel sounds in speech signals in said input means, said vowel detector means being adapted to regularly and periodically interrupt said drive means power supply for certain predetermined time intervals in response to the initiation and continued presence of vowel sounds in said input, with means being provided for periodically chopping said power supply into a plurality of substantially regularly spaced apart power pulses having predetermined time duration, with said periodic chopping of drive means power supply commencing after a certain predetermined time interval following initial detection of vowel presence and continuing during the presence of vowel sounds in said input.
  • the speech compression means as defined in claim 1 being particularly characterized in that filter means are provided in the speech input for passing signals of between about 250 Hz and 6,000 Hz.
  • the speech compression means as defined in claim 1 being particularly characterized in that said periodic chopping of drive means power supply provides for power pulses of about 60 milliseconds followed by an idle period of about 30 milliseconds.
  • the speech compression means as defined in claim 1 being particularly characterized in that said recording means has a start up time capability of less than about 10 milliseconds.
  • the speech compression means as defined in claim 1 being particularly characterized in that said speech detector means continues to energize said drive means power supply for a predetermined period of time greater than approximately 10 milliseconds following the termination of each speech signal.
  • the recording means as defined in claim 1 being particularly characterized in that filter means are provided for speech detection, the filter being adapted to pass signals of modest amplitude at frequencies less than about 1,000 Hz, with the amplitude increasing substantially uniformly until an input frequency of about 8,000 Hz is reached.
  • the recording means as defined in claim 6 being particularly characterized in that said increase is at a level of about 24 db./octave at frequencies from between 1,000 Hz and 8,000 Hz.
  • the recording means as defined in claim 1 being particularly characterized in that vowel detector means are provided in the speech input for passing signals having a frequency of between about 250- Hz and 1,200 Hz.
  • the speech compression means as defined in claim 1 being particularly characterized in that control means are provided for controllably adjusting the extent of compression.
  • Means for recording and selectively modifying portions of normal speech sound comprising:
  • the speech compression means as defined in claim 10 being particularly characterized in that said recording means includes first and second serially coupled recording means with drive means for each of said recording means, means for continuing the energization of said second recording means upon each occurrence of the termination of the presence of a speech signal in said first recording means.

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