Patent ID: 8510108
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. A voice processing device comprising: a zone detection unit which detects a voice zone including a voice signal or a non-steady sound zone including a non-steady signal other than the voice signal from an input signal, wherein the zone detection unit detects a steady sound zone that includes the voice signal or steady signal other than the non-steady signal; a filter calculation unit that calculates a filter coefficient of a filter for maintaining the voice signal in the voice zone and for suppressing the non-steady signal in the non-steady sound zone according to the detection result by the zone detection unit, wherein the filter calculation unit calculates a filter coefficient for suppressing the steady sound signal in the steady sound zone, wherein the filter calculation unit calculates the filter coefficient by using a filter coefficient calculated in the non-steady sound zone for the voice zone and using a filter coefficient calculated based on the contents of the voice zone for the non-steady sound zone; and a verification unit which verifies a constraint condition of the filter coefficient calculated by the filter calculation unit, wherein the verification unit verifies a constraint condition of the filter coefficient in the voice zone based on the determination of whether or not the amount of suppression of the non-steady sound signal in the non-steady sound zone and the amount of suppression of the steady sound signal in the steady sound zone, that would result from applying the filter to the input signal, is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold value.