Patent ID: 8005669

Claim:
A method for voice processing, comprising: segmenting an incoming digital voice signal chronologically into blocks; mapping the blocks in chronological order, by a transformation in a respective frequency range, onto respective frequency components; using a processing unit to multiply the frequency components by chronologically modifiable frequency-dependent weighting factors derived from at least a-posteriori signal-to-noise ratios having a plurality of values, wherein: a respective frequency component is multiplied by a current weighting factor if the current weighting factor is smaller than a weighting factor last calculated for the frequency component, and wherein the respective frequency component is multiplied by the current weighting factor if the current weighting factor lies above a threshold value, and if the weighting factor last calculated for the frequency component is smaller than the current weighting factor, the frequency component is multiplied by the weighting factor last calculated for the frequency component if the weighting factor last calculated is smaller than the current weighting factor, and the a-posteriori signal-to-noise ratios are defined as the power density spectrum of the incoming digital voice signal and an output signal of a buffering; and feeding the weighted frequency components back, after a back transformation in a respective time range, to a low-rate voice codec.