A Low-Rate Digital Formant Vocoder

A complete algorithm of a 1200-bits/s digital formant vocoder system is described. This vocoder algorithm draws heavily on the results of recent research in linear predictive coding. The transmitting parameters are frequencies and amplitudes of the first three formants, the pitch period, voiced/unvoiced decision, and the gain. Formant bandwidths are estimated at the synthesizer by using the amplitude information. The synthesizer structure is in the parallel form. The synthetic speech quality at 1200 bits/s is reasonably good; most of the speech is intelligible and speaker-recognizable.

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