Voice versus pulsed tone signal discrimination circuit

摘要

Two circuit embodiments are disclosed for discriminating between a voice signal and other audio standard (busy and dial tone) signals on a telephone line. One embodiment measures the frequency of the envelope of the audio signal and decides voice (speech) presence if (glottal) frequencies above 50 hz. are present. The second embodiment measures the cyclic frequency of the audio signal and decides voice (speech) presence if frequencies above 600 hz are present, assuming busy or dial tones are 400 hz. Features of the second embodiment include gating of the timer-counter to prevent the cycle-counter from erroneously counting chatter during rise-time and fall-time of an audio signal.