Patent Document ID: 20130231924
Application ID: 13589977
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of reconstructing a speech signal from an audible signal using a formant-based codebook, the method comprising: detecting one or more formants in an audible signal; receiving a pitch estimate associated with the one or more detected formants; selecting one or more codebook tuples from the formant-based codebook based at least on the one or more detected formants, wherein each codebook tuple includes a respective formant spectrum value and a respective one or more formant amplitude values, wherein the respective formant spectrum value is indicative of the spectral location of one or more formants associated with the codebook tuple, and the respective one or more formant amplitude values are indicative of the corresponding amplitudes of the one or more formants associated with the codebook tuple; and interpolating the spectrum between the corresponding one or more formants associated with the one or more selected codebook tuples to generate a reconstructed speech signal using the received pitch estimate.