摘要 |
Disclosed is an electrical-signal synthesizer for converting digitally coded information associated with at least one electrical signal, whose frequency, amplitude or phase may vary, to analog signals whose frequency, amplitude or phase varies in substantially the same manner as that of the at least one electrical signal. More specifically, the synthesizer is operative to convert a digital signal representative of a first analog signal, such as a voice signal, having varying parameters, such as frequency or amplitude, into an analog output signal which varies in substantially the same manner as the first signal, and where the digital signal is composed of consecutive frames of words, and one word of each frame is representative of a fundamental frequency associated with the first signal at an instant of time, and successive words in the respective frame are representative of the energy associated with at least one of a plurality of successive bands or spectrum-segments of the first signal to be reproduced, at the given instant in time, each of the successive bands bearing a predetermined frequency relationship and wherein the synthesis of the output signal is accomplished by generating from the word representative of the fundamental frequency in each respective frame, a stream of digital words representative of the frequency and each of its harmonics at each instant of time and producing therefrom a second stream of digital words which is indicative of the frequency components of the original sound and modulating the second stream with amplitude data corresponding to discrete periods of time and adding the respective digital signals so produced for a discrete period of time and converting the same to an analog signal which is representative of the original voice signal. |