Title: Compressed speech system and predictor

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Abstract: A predictor compressed speech system comprising a residual encoder for transmitting or storing a digitized speech signal having one bit of resolution is disclosed. An original speed waveform may be reconstituted from the digitized signal to produce synthesized speech without the use of a vocal tract analog. The digitized signal is produced by generating a remainder or error signal between the original input signal and its predicted value. A predictor comprises an analog delay line in the form of a series of sample and hold modules, the outputs of which feed a corresponding series of correlation multipliers. The summed outputs of the correlation multipliers are an estimate of the next value of the input signal. This estimate is then fed back to the delay line unput, forming a recursive filter which is continuously tuned to match the correlation statistics of the input signal. Within the predictor, duty cycles which are necessary to generate the correlation coefficients are achieved through four-quadrant multiplication of an analog signal with the digital speech output of the system. The four quadrant multiplication is accomplished with analog gate pairs. Integrators having a finite DC gain are employed within the predictor to ensure lack of transmitter-receiver divergence and immunity from moderate bit errors in the bit stream driving the receiver. An absolute value detector scales the system to follow amplitude variations in the input signal.


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