摘要 |
Speech level measurement is particularly significant for successful echo compensation in telecommunications systems, for noise suppression in a noisy environment, for example in military vehicles, or in speech recognition and in speech coding and decoding systems. A method is indicated which permits speech levels measurement only if features of speech are recognized and interferences and speech pauses are filtered out for the measurement. To this end, speech and pause detectors and a mean value generator are utilized, the time behavior of which is largely adapted to the perception capability of the human ear. Briefly spoken vowels thus are well detected, while nasal sounds or consonants are suppressed in the case of falling levels. A speech level measuring device is indicated which provides very accurate results in a short adaptation period.
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