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A telephone includes a transmit channel and a receive channel, each including a bank of sub-band filters having a VAD coupled one to each sub-band filter. Each VAD measures the spectral energy in a sub-band, compares the spectral energy to a first threshold, and produces an output signal representative of whether or not the first threshold is exceeded. The voice activity detector also includes a threshold circuit for calculating a dynamically adjustable noise threshold based upon averaged measured spectral energy. A wide band or system VAD monitors echo canceling circuitry to detect voice activity and double talk. A dynamic balance control circuit maintains the transmit and receive channels in a predetermined energy ratio during double talk.
1. In a telephone including an audio frequency circuit having a transmit channel and a receive channel, an acoustic echo canceling circuit, a line echo canceling circuit, and a noise reduction circuit coupled to the channels, and wherein each channel includes a filter bank for dividing the channel into a plurality of sub-bands, the improvement comprising:
a plurality of voice activity detectors coupled led one to each sub-band filter, wherein each voice activity detector produces a signal indicative of the energy content of an input signal to the detector;
a plurality of variable gain amplifiers coupled one each to a voice activity detector in the receive channel;
a plurality of comparators coupled one each to a pair of voice activity detectors, wherein each pair includes a voice activity detector from the transmit channel and the variable gain amplifier from the corresponding voice activity detector coupled to the receive channel;
means for controlling the gain of said variable gain amplifiers to provide a predetermined balance between the channels, said means including:
a first averaging circuit coupled to the output of the acoustic echo canceller;
a second averaging circuit coupled to the output of the line echo canceller; and
a ratio detector coupled to the first averaging circuit and the second averaging circuit;
wherein said means controls gain in accordance with the ratio of the averages of the outputs of the acoustic echo canceling circuit and the line echo canceling circuit.
2. The telephone as set forth in
3. The telephone as set forth in
4. The telephone as set forth in
5. The telephone as set forth in
6. In a telephone including an audio frequency circuit having a transmit channel having variable gain and a receive channel having variable gain, an acoustic echo canceling circuit, and a line echo canceling circuit, the improvement comprising:
a first averaging circuit coupled to the output of the acoustic echo canceller;
a second averaging circuit coupled to the output of the line echo canceller; and
a ratio detector coupled to the first averaging circuit and the second averaging circuit;
wherein the output of the ratio detector controls gain in each channel.
7. The telephone as set forth in
8. The telephone as set forth in
9. The telephone as set forth in
a first broad band voice activity detector coupled to said acoustic echo canceller and to said first averaging circuit for controlling the averaging of the output signal from the acoustic echo canceller;
a second broad band voice activity detector coupled to said line echo canceller and to said second averaging circuit for controlling the averaging of the output signal from the line echo canceller.
10. The telephone as set forth in
a plurality of threshold detectors;
a ratio detector coupled to an echo canceling circuit for calculating the following ratio
where Ein is the signal at the input to the echo canceling circuit, Eout is the signal output from the echo canceling circuit, and Eecho is the echo estimate generated by the echo canceling circuit; and
wherein a first of said threshold detectors is coupled to the output of said ratio detector.
11. The telephone asset forth in
12. The telephone as set forth in
13. The telephone as set forth in
This application relates to copending application Ser. No. 09/326,864, filed Jun. 7, 1999, entitled Noise Reduction Circuit for Telephones, assigned to the assignee of this invention, and herein incorporated by reference in its entirety. This application also relates to copending application Ser. No. 10/057,160 filed Jan. 25, 2002, entitled Telephone Having Four VAD Circuits, assigned to the assignee of this invention, and herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.
This invention relates to a telephone employing sub-band analysis and synthesis for echo cancellation and noise reduction and, in particular, to a control circuit that utilizes a plurality of voice activity detector (VAD) circuits in the sub-bands for controlling the operation of the telephone.
As used herein, �telephone� is a generic term for a communication device that utilizes, directly or indirectly, a dial tone from a licensed service provider. As such, �telephone� includes desk telephones (see
The detector described herein is referred to as a voice activity detector but is not limited to just that function. As will be apparent from a complete understanding of the invention, the detector can be adjusted to sense intelligence or patterns of various kinds, e.g. fax signals, not just voice signals. Calling the detector a �message� activity detector or a �communication� activity detector is not more clear than the more familiar term of voice activity detector and, therefore, these other terms are not used.
Virtually since the invention of the telephone, techniques have been developed to improve the clarity of the sound reproduced at each station. There are a number of techniques but two are of particular interest. A first technique uses what is known as a sub-band analysis and synthesis, of which complementary comb filters i.e. a plurality of filters wherein band pass filters alternate with band stop filters, are an example. Comb filters with complementary pass bands and stop bands are coupled in the two audio channels connecting the two stations of a telephone call. That is, the pass bands in one channel are the stop bands in the other channel. As a result, a signal traveling in one direction will be slightly attenuated but a signal traveling in a loop, i.e. an echo, will encounter both sets of stop bands and be highly attenuated.
The use of the complementary comb filters reduces the acoustic coupling between the speaker and microphone at each station as well as inter-station or line echo. Echo canceling circuits, which try to recognize a delayed signal as an echo, are much more complicated than complementary comb filter circuits and the two are often used together to eliminate echoes and other noises. However, comb filters degrade the quality of speech and do not always provide a sufficient margin of acoustic stability. One reason for the degradation is that the frequency response of a room in which the microphone and speaker of a station are located is characterized by a large number of resonant peaks. The band transitions in the comb filter transfer functions are often not sharp enough to suppress the resonant peaks, because if the transitions are too sharp the quality of the transmitted audio signal is adversely affected.
Complementary comb filter circuits are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,386,465 (Addeo et al.). This patent includes complementary comb filters in combination with other apparatus for processing audio signals to reduce noise. U.S. Pat. No. 4,991,167 (Petri et al.) discloses a slightly different system, illustrated in
Another variation on the comb filter is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,567,873 (Peroni), illustrated in
A problem with these approaches is that, unlike complementary comb filters, one can attenuate the signals in adjacent bands, thereby noticeably degrading the quality of the voice transmission. If the signal in one channel is particularly loud, the telephone is reduced to �half duplex� or simplex operation, i.e. single direction at a time because sounds from the other station are inaudible. The person speaking must stop and the circuits must re-settle before a person at the other-station can be heard.
Copending patent application Ser. No. 09/326,864, filed Jun. 7, 1999, discloses the system illustrated, in
The output of each band pass filter is also coupled to a detector, such as detector 51 at the output of filter 52. Detector 51 senses when the power of the signal from filter 52 briefly exceeds a threshold and provides a suitable signal to control logic 40. Detectors, such as detector 53, sense when the power of the signal exceeds a threshold for a longer period and provide a suitable signal to control logic 40. Control logic 40 analyzes the information from all inputs and controls the attenuators accordingly. In particular, echoes are reduced by controlling the attenuators in one channel in accordance with the amplitude of the signal in a corresponding band in the other channel. Background noise is reduced by attenuating the signals in a channel in accordance with the amplitude of the signals in each band of that channel. Adjacent bands in a channel may not be attenuated fully, i.e. set to minimum gain/maximum attenuation. Secondly, maximum attenuation does not take place in the same band in both channels. In general, control logic 40 operates to minimize background noise and echo. It is desired to improve the control of the signal level in each channel to prevent, to the extent possible, half duplex operation.
Anyone who has used a typical speaker telephone is well aware of the cut off speech and the silent periods during a conversation caused by echo canceling circuitry. Such telephones operate in what is known as half-duplex mode, which means that only one person can speak at a time. While such silent periods assure that the sound from the speaker is not coupled directly into the microphone within a speaker telephone, the quality of the call is poor.
Whether or not to receive (listen) or transmit (talk) is not easily resolved in the particular application of telephone communication. Voices may overlap, so-called �double talk� particularly if there are more than two parties to a call. Background noise may cause problems if the noise level is a significant percentage of the voice level. Pauses in a conversation do not necessarily mean that a person is finished speaking and that it is time for someone else to speak. A voice signal is a complex wave that is discontinuous because not all speech sounds use the vocal chords. Analyzing a voice signal in real time and deciding whether or not a person has finished speaking is a complex problem despite the ordinary human experience of doing it unconsciously or subconsciously. A variety of electronic systems have been proposed in the prior art for arbitrating send or receive but the problem remains.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,796,287 (Reesor et al.) discloses a speaker telephone in which a decremented counter provides a delay to channel switching by the remainder of the circuit. The magnitudes of the line signal and the microphone signal are used in determining whether or not to switch channels.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,879,745 (Arbel) discloses a half-duplex speaker telephone that controls the selection of either a transmit or a receive audio path based upon a present state of the speaker telephone and the magnitudes of three variables associated with each path. The three variables for each path include signal power, noise power, and worst-case echo.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,418,848 (Armbr�ster) discloses a double talk detector wherein an evaluation circuit monitors voice signals upstream and downstream of echo canceling apparatus for detecting double talk. An up�down counter is incremented and decremented at different rates and a predetermined count is required before further signal processing takes place.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,598,466 (Graumann) discloses a voice activity detector including an algorithm for distinguishing voice from background noise based upon an analysis of average peak value of a voice signal compared to the current number of the audio signal.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,692,042 (Sacca) discloses a speaker telephone including non-linear amplifiers to compress transmitted and received signals, and level detectors to determine the levels of the compressed transmitted and received signals. The compressed signals are compared in a comparator having hysteresis to enable either transmit mode or receive mode.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,764,753 (McCaslin et al.) discloses a double talk detector that compares the send and receive signals to determine �Return Echo Loss Enhancement,� which is stored as a digital value in a register. The digital value is adjusted over time and is used to provide a variable, rather than fixed, parameter to which new data is compared in determining whether to send or receive.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,867,574 (Eryilmaz) discloses a voice activity detection system that uses a voice energy term defined as the sum of the differences between consecutive values of a speech signal. Comparison of the voice energy term with threshold values and comparing the voice energy terms of the transmit and receive channels determines which channel will be active.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,138,040 (Nicholls et al.) discloses comparing the energy in each �frame� (thirty millisecond interval) of speech with background energy to determine whether or not speech is present in a channel. A timer is disclosed for bridging gaps between voiced portions of speech.
Typically, these systems are implemented in digital form and manipulate large amounts of data in analyzing the input signals. The Sacca patent discloses an analog system using an amplifier with hysteresis to avoid dithering, which, to a large extent, is unavoidable with a simple amplitude comparison. On the other hand, an extensive computational analysis to determine relative power takes too long. The Eryilmaz patent attempts to simplify the amount of computation but still requires manipulation of significant amounts of data. All these systems manipulate amplitude data, or data derived from amplitude, up to the point of making a binary value signal indicating voice.
One can increase the speed of a system by reducing the amount of data being processed. Unfortunately, this typically reduces the resolution of the system. For example, all other parameters being equal, eight bit data is more quickly processed than sixteen bit data. The problem is that resolution is reduced. In an acoustic environment, the quality or fidelity of the audio signal requires a minimum amount of data. Thus, the problem remains of speeding up a system other than by simply increasing the clock frequency.
Some of the prior art systems use historical data, e.g. three occurrences of what is interpreted as a voice signal. Such systems require large amounts of memory to handle the historical voice data and the current voice data.
Voice detection is not just used to determine transmit or receive. A reliable voice detection circuit is necessary in order to properly control echo canceling circuitry, which, if activated at the wrong time, can severely distort a desired voice signal. In the prior art, this problem has not been solved satisfactorily.
In view of the foregoing, it is therefore an object of the invention to provide an improved method and apparatus for controlling echo cancellation and noise reduction in a telephone.
Another object of the invention is to provide a method and apparatus for controlling a telephone to minimize half duplex operation during a call.
A further object of the invention is to provide a circuit having dynamically adjustable thresholds for analyzing energy content of a speech signal.
Another object of the invention is to provide a voice activity detector that does not require large amounts of data for reliable detection of a voice signal.
The foregoing objects are achieved in this invention in which a telephone includes a transmit channel and a receive channel, each including a bank of sub-band filters having a VAD coupled one to each sub-band filter. Each VAD measures the spectral energy in a sub-band, compares the spectral energy to a first threshold, and produces an output signal representative of whether or not the first threshold is exceeded. The voice activity detector also includes a threshold circuit for calculating a dynamically adjustable noise threshold based upon the measured spectral energy. A wide band or system VAD monitors echo canceling circuitry to detect voice activity and double talk. A dynamic balance control circuit maintains the transmit and receive channels in a predetermined energy ratio during double talk.
A more complete understanding of the invention can be obtained by considering the following detailed description in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
Those of skill in the art recognize that, once an analog signal is converted to digital form, all subsequent operations can take place in one or more suitably programmed microprocessors. Reference to �signal�, for example, does not necessarily mean a hardware implementation or an analog signal. Data in memory, even a single bit, can be a signal. In other words, a block diagram herein can be interpreted as hardware, software, e.g. a flow chart, or a mixture of hardware and software. Programming a microprocessor is well within the ability of those of ordinary skill in the art, either individually or in groups.
This invention finds use in many applications where the electronics is essentially the same but the external appearance of the device may vary.
The various forms of telephone can all benefit from the invention.
A cellular telephone includes both audio frequency and radio frequency circuits. Duplexer 105 couples antenna 106 to receive processor 107. Duplexer 105 couples antenna 106 to power amplifier 108 and isolates receive processor 107 from the power amplifier during transmission. Transmit processor 109 modulates a radio frequency signal with an audio signal from circuit 104. In non-cellular applications, such as speakerphones, there are no radio frequency circuits and signal processor 104 maybe simplified somewhat. Problems of echo cancellation and noise remain and are handled in audio processor 110. It is audio processor 110 that is modified to include the invention. How that modification takes place is more easily understood by considering the echo canceling and noise reduction portions of an audio processor in more detail.
A new voice signal entering microphone input 112 may or may not be accompanied by a signal from speaker output 118. The signals from input 112 are digitized in A/D converter 121 and coupled to summation network 122. There is, as yet, no signal from echo canceling circuit 123 and the data proceeds to sub-band filters 124, which is initially set to minimum attenuation.
The output from sub-band filters 124 is coupled to summation circuit 126, where comfort noise 125 is optionally added to the signal converted back to analog form by D/A converter 127, amplified in amplifier 128, and coupled to line output 114. The filter banks in each channel shown in
One band from the transmit channel, i.e. the channel coupled to microphone input 141, and the corresponding band from the receive channel, i.e. the channel coupled to line input 142, are coupled to detector 146. As indicated by the dashed line between detector 146 and detector 147, there is a separate detector for each sub-band and each detector receives a filtered signal from microphone input 141 and a filtered signal from line input 142. By way of example and not limitation, one embodiment of the invention included ten sub-bands in each channel. Therefore, there were ten sub-band detectors.
Each sub-band detector has a plurality of outputs and like outputs are consolidated into data words or vectors. For example, one output is designated rcSpeech (the names are arbitrary and are usually a mnemonic name indicating function). One output from sub-band detector 146 and the corresponding output from sub-band detector 147 are coupled to combining circuit 148. As indicated by the dashed line between combining circuit 148 and combining circuit 149, there is a combining circuit for each output of the sub-band detectors. The functions of the combining circuits may vary slightly, depending upon the nature of the input signal. For example, the rcSpeech signal is a one bit value from each sub-band detector. Combining circuit 148 collects the bits and converts the data into a word. Another output from the sub-band detector is txEnergy, which is a sixteen bit value representing the energy measurement in the current frame of data from the transmit channel. The ten sixteen bit values are stored as vectors by a combining circuit for further use.
The signals being combined may better be understood by considering the sub-band detector in greater detail in
Each VAD detects speech, measures speech energy, and measures background noise energy. One could measure peak amplitude instead of measuring energy but measuring energy is preferred. Signals representing transmit speech energy and receive speech energy are compared in comparator 154 to produce a talk signal, a one-bit binary representation of which is greater. In one embodiment of the invention, a logic �1� represents greater transmit energy. Obviously, any consistent logic representation could be used.
The inner workings of each VAD circuit is illustrated in
Two assumptions in the algorithm for calculating energy are that speech has more energy than noise and that speech energy rises more rapidly from frame to frame. These have been found to be reasonable assumptions, as long as the noise is not very loud. The algorithm, illustrated in
The noiseTh signal is produced by threshold calculation block 162, illustrated in greater detail in
The parameter γ is used to determine the length of the average. This value was set to 0.02 in one embodiment of the invention. The speech signal (
In block 163 (
Block 164 (
In one embodiment of the invention, a sixteen bit shift register is used, although only the outputs of the lower five bits are OR-ed. The number of bits is arbitrary. Monitoring five bits means that there must be five consecutive frames of zero before the output goes zero. This means that there must be five consecutive frames of low (background) signal energy before the circuit shown in
Energy measurements requires both resolution and range for squaring and summing of thirty-two values. These are conflicting requirements in a fixed-point implementation. The solution is to implement the energy calculation using the MAC (Multiply/ACcumulate) function available in some DSPs (Digital Signal Processors). Because the accumulator is 40-bits wide, the MAC function is performed and the result is rounded to 32-bits for use in the system. For other processors with a narrower accumulator, the calculation may not be as efficient. As presently implemented with currently available microprocessors, it is necessary to use 32-bit precision. One embodiment took advantage of the registers and accumulators in the target DSP (TMS320C54x family) for efficiency. There are two 32-bit sums and a few 32-bit stores.
�Efficiency� in a programming sense is the number of instructions required to perform a function. Fewer instructions is better or more efficient than many instructions on a given microprocessor, wherein an instruction is the binary code for controlling a microprocessor. In languages other than machine (assembly) language, a line of code may involve hundreds of instructions. As used herein, �efficiency� relates to machine language instructions, not lines of code.
Background noise measurement uses an averaging filter. It was found that 16-bits is not enough resolution for this function. Over time, rounding errors accumulated in the filter resulting in an inaccurate measurement. Thus, a 32-bit filter was needed. This could have been very inefficient because the filter involves two multiplies and two additions. By restricting gamma to values equal to reciprocal powers of two, the multiplies can be replaced by right shifts, which are much more efficient than 32-bit multiplies. The code listed in
As described thus far, a control system constructed in accordance with the invention includes n VAD circuits, one for each sub-band in the transmit and receive channels. In accordance with the invention, there is an additional VAD circuit, a wide band or system VAD that includes double talk detection, illustrated in
A fundamental problem in echo canceling is distinguishing between near end speech and far end echo. With many echo-canceling algorithms, it is essential to know when double talk is occurring. An echo of far end speech can easily be mistaken for near end speech. The purpose of a double talk detector is to tell the difference between the two.
Part of the double talk detection algorithm used herein calculates a ratio using signals from three locations,
After the ratio is calculated, it is compared to a threshold called thrDTD in comparator 183. This threshold is nominally set to 0.1. The number is not critical because the ratio typically produces values that are equal to one (1) or very nearly one, or zero (0) or very nearly zero. If double talk is present, the ratio will yield an answer very close to one. This can be seen by inspecting the ratio in block 181. If there is no echo to cancel, the echo estimate will be close to zero and
In order for the double talk detector to work correctly, the echo canceling circuit must be functioning. If the echo canceling circuit is disabled or is not canceling echoes, then it is as if the double talk detector is not in the circuit. A result that the system may spend more time in a double talk state than is appropriate. To minimize this possibility, there are four additional comparisons made in the wide band VAD. All five comparisons generate binary signals that are combined in AND circuit 182 to determine the final value of the output signal, Actiu.
The next comparison determines whether or not the echo canceling circuit is operating. This is done by comparing input and output energies in comparator 184. The output energy is preferably reduced by a small amount in multiplier 185. If the product is greater than the input energy, then the echo canceling circuit is not operating. This makes sense because the echo canceling circuit normally subtracts signals to cancel echo. A logic �1� output indicates operation. A factor of 0.9 has been found suitable for multiplier 185.
The next comparison is simply a check to assure that the input energy is not numerically too small. It is difficult to calculate an accurate ratio if the input energy is very small (less than seven bits or 0.01). The input energy is compared to a threshold in comparator 186 to generate a binary signal. A logic �1� output indicates sufficient energy.
In comparator 187, the
Optional comparator 191 is another double talk detector that uses a method similar to the Geigel double talk detector method. In the Geigel method, a certain loss between the speaker and the microphone on the near end is assumed. The assumed loss varies from phone to phone, depending on design, location and other factors, but a 4 dB loss is a representative example. The energy of the microphone signal is then compared to the energy of the speaker signal. If the microphone signal energy is greater than or equal to the speaker signal energy, then near end speech is present and the output is a logic �1�. Programmable gains on the speaker output and microphone input should take into account the assumed loss. In this example, the programmable gain amplifiers are adjusted to make the microphone signal 4 dB below the speaker signal when no near end speech is present.
The outputs from the comparators are coupled to AND gate 182. Only when all inputs are a logic �1� will the output from AND gate 182 be a logic �1�. This signal is coupled to hold-off circuit 192. The operation of circuit 192 is described in connection with
A purpose of control block 140 (
Combining circuits 148 through 149 are not identical and their structure and operation depends upon the nature of the outputs from detectors 146 through 147. For single bit data, the combining circuit is a register in which the bits are set (�1�) or reset (�0�), wherein each bit represents a sub-band. For example, the one-bit talk signals are combined into a ten-bit wide vector (one bit for each sub-band in a channel). The vector is used to control the gain in each of the ten sub-bands individually. For example, if bit zero of talk is �1�, the speaker out signal is attenuated in the lowest frequency band and the line out signal is amplified in the lowest frequency band. The opposite is true if bit zero were �0�. In other words, the talk signal is named from the perspective of the near end talker.
Similarly, the txSpeech signal and the rcSpeech signal are ten-bit values representing the sub-bands. The txSpeech and rcSpeech signals are used by the sub-band noise reduction block to control noise reduction (attenuation) in each sub-band. Consolidating data is, therefore, bit manipulation of a single word of data.
A register can be a separate circuit, such as a shift register, or a memory location internal or external to a microprocessor, or an I/O (input/output) port internal or external to a microprocessor. Generally, a register is sixteen bits or a single word. More or fewer bits can be used, depending upon system requirements.
The txEnergy and rcEnergy signals occupy ten memory locations, for example, ten 16-bit words. The number of words or vectors is the same as the number of sub-bands in a channel. Each word is the energy measurement of the current frame for one sub-band in one channel.
The lineNoiseTh signal is a 16-bit word representing the sum of the noise levels in each sub-band in the receive channel. The micNoiseTh signal is a 16-bit word representing the sum of the noise levels in each sub-band in the transmit channel.
Although this description may indicate a one-to-one correspondence between the number of sub-bands and the number of bits or words, this does not mean that circuitry within the controlled system must use all the data. For example, for speech detection, one may choose to ignore the higher frequency sub-bands because most of the energy in speech is in the lower six sub-bands. The amount of data to process is reduced and the system operates more quickly.
The txActiv and rxActiv signals are used to determine if the system should be in single talk, double talk, or silence modes. These are very important signals in the sub-system. The double talk detector block uses the background noise measurements and the energy measurements from around the echo canceling circuits to calculate rxActiv and txActiv. As shown in
LinNoiseLeuel and micNoiseLevel are measures of the background noise levels on their respective signal channels. To consolidate these signals, the sum of the ten separate signals from the sub-band VAD blocks is calculated. This produces a scaled average of the inputs; i.e. the sum is used directly, not divided by ten to calculate an average. Subsequent calculations take this fact into account.
In addition to controlling machine state and allocation of sub-bands, the data from detector 180 is used to control gain between channels in what is called dynamic balance control, illustrated in
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In a preferred embodiment of the invention, circuits 201 and 202 provide a long term average; i.e. γ=2−8(≈0.004). In other words, it takes two hundred fifty-six frames, approximately one second, to adjust completely to a step change in energy. Increasing the magnitude of y decreases the length of the average. Also in a preferred embodiment of the invention, the ratio is limited to a value from 16:1 to 1:16 (16.00 to 0.06). It is preferred to multiply the average from circuit 201 by an offset to bias the
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The invention thus provides an improved method and apparatus for controlling echo cancellation and noise reduction in a telephone by providing voice detection on each sub-band in both transmit and receive channels. Half duplex operation is minimized during a call by more reliable detection of double talk and improved allocation of sub-bands, enabling double talk to continue with time varying input levels. Stated another way, full duplex communication is possible, in a system constructed in accordance with the invention, until the receive signal or the transmit signal is very much louder than the other signal. Dynamically adjustable thresholds improve double talk detection and the voice activity detector does not require large amounts of data (only three frames, or about 12 milliseconds) for reliable detection of a voice signal.
Having thus described the invention, it will be apparent to those of skill in the art that various modifications can be made within the scope of the invention. For example, signals that are represented by one bit could be represented by more than one bit to provide finer control; e.g. the sub-band talk signals can be double bit (four value) rather than single bit (two value). The control signal for the averaging circuit illustrated in
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Don't fight Putin. He could care less if world stock markets free fall for days, week or months. He wants Ukraine lock, stock and barrel and no one is going to stop him. Spy unfortunately will suffer going forward and one has to wonder if at some points there are no buyers (long position) since who wants to try to catch a very big fat falling knife?
Down 203 points right now with just an hour left of trading. Spy extremely risky at these levels, so why hold in your portfolio? Upside is pennies but down side is HUGE if long anticipated market correction finally hits due to Ukraine crisis.
It's difficult to say; I was looking for 1860 S&P close, but whatever the close is today, I think tomorrow will be red around the globe.
Agree - things are getting worse in Ukraine and I still haven't seen anything out of Europe that tells me they will put Putin in his "place". You either get tough with Putin or go back to your room for an afternoon nap. Not sure what Europe will do but as we all know - they are a fragmented society.


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Carmel Valley Middle School students donate bikes for Ghana
In 2002, Emmanuel Ofusu Yeboah rode a bicycle 380 miles across his home country of Ghana on one leg. The trip took him 10 days.
Yeboah's ride was to bring awareness for people with disabilities, who, in his country, are thought of as less than worthy. The inspirational Yeboah visited Carmel Valley Middle School recently to share his story of perseverance and courage.
He was due to stay in San Diego this month, collecting bicycles to be used to make wheelchairs for people in Ghana. The students heard Yeboah's story before his visit, and upon his arrival, families had donated 62 bikes, with 12 more expected to come in.
Yeboah is aiming to collect at least 500 bicycles to ship back to his country.
"I feel very proud to do something for my country and to make awareness," Yeboah said. "Your bicycles are going to change someone's life."
Yeboah was born without a tibia in a country where the parents of babies born with physical disabilities are told to kill their babies by poisoning or leave them in the forest to die. Yeboah's mom refused.
Yeboah's mother would carry him three miles to school on her back until he became too big to carry. From age 12 on, Yeboah hopped on one leg to get to his school, where his fellow students refused to play with him.
To get in on the game, Yeboah saved his money from shining shoes to buy his own soccer ball to bring to school — if he had the ball, the other children had to play with him.
In Ghana, people with disabilities are forced to beg in the streets, often having to crawl or hop in order to get around. Yeboah wasn't satisfied with this low quality of life and set out to change the way people viewed those with disabilities.
What he needed was a bike. He had heard about the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) in San Diego and wrote it a letter asking for a bike to do his cross-country ride. The foundation obliged, in addition to sending a $1,000 grant for his trek.
Yeboah's bike ride brought hope to his country and resulted in the distribution of 800 makeshift wheelchairs. After his ride, CAF invited him to California to compete in its Triathlon Challenge. While in San Diego, he was given a new prosthetic leg and only six weeks later raced in the triathlon.
In 2005, Yeboah won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at ESPN's annual awards show alongside his friend Jim MacLaren, for whom CAF was founded. MacLaren was a standout football and lacrosse player before he was hit by a bus while he rode his motorcycle on a New York City street.
His left leg was amputated, but it didn't stop
MacLaren from going on to race in triathlons and marathons. Then, in 1993, while racing in a triathlon, he was hit by a van and left a paraplegic. Through a tough rehabilitation process, he regained movement.
Students watched a video of Yeboah and MacLaren receiving their award from Oprah Winfrey, where a room full of athletes gave them a standing ovation that lasted for minutes.


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Avocados are high in a fat that helps lower cholesterol and contain more potassium than bananas. (The Daily Star/Hasan Shaaban)
BATROUN, Lebanon: A group of women gathered in the northern town of Batroun Friday to learn about the benefits of avocados for cooking, health and preserving Lebanon's sparse reserves of water.
The event, held to mark the newly created "Avocado Day," was organized by the Lebanon Industry Value Chain Development Project in collaboration with Batroun's Cultural Development Association, and was funded by USAID.
Those present at the event at Batroniyat Center learned that avocado is a multipurpose fruit that is beneficial for diabetes patients and delicious when used in various sorts of meals.
The event was part of an initiative by LIVCD to enhance Lebanon's economic situation by improving competition in domestic markets and the country's competitiveness abroad.
Avocado, a fruit mostly grown in tropical countries, was introduced to Lebanon a few years ago. Due to the specific weather and climate conditions here, Lebanese avocados are small in size but just as tasty. They are grown in Batroun and all across Lebanon in places such as Akkar and Bsharri.
An avocado tree only needs to be watered every few days, which is another reason that Batroun decided to hold an Avocado Day, to encourage participants to grow the fruit as part of alternative agriculture in Lebanon that will preserve water.
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Wings PP Will Reach Top 10
Blog: Abel to Yzerman By IwoCPO
12/21/06 at 03:11 PM ET | Comments (0)
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Babcock thought his group was moving the puck and doing the things necessary for power-play success. Basically, he thought the unit, led by four-time Norris Trophy winner Nicklas Lidstrom, would find its way. And, it seems, they have. In their first nine December games, the Wings have converted 13 of 53 power-play chances. In other words, they've scored one more power-play goal in their last nine games (entering Wednesday's tilt vs. Columbus) than they did in their first 23.More
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12/21/06 at 02:39 PM ET | Comments (0)
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NBC will debut new promos for the NHL, one of its lowest-rated sports properties, during the Eagles-Cowboys game on Christmas evening, which is likely to draw one of the network's largest audiences of the NFL season. Anticipating a strong rating for the key rivalry game, NBC will introduce viewers to the "Game of the Week" concept and try to alter NHL fans' traditional home team affinity into more of a national interest in the sport. Around 60% of the country will get the Penguins-Flyers game when NBC's schedule starts January 13, so Penguins C Sidney Crosby will get a promotional push.
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Hockey Attracts Women
12/21/06 at 11:04 AM ET | Comments (0)
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Alter that stereotypical image of hockey fans as beer-guzzling, mullet-sporting males and make room for moms, sisters and daughters.
In fact, 41 percent of fans ages 12 and older who attended NHL games were female, according to the league and spring 2005 figures from Simmons Market Research. That figure exceeded those of the other "big four" professional sports leagues in the United States - Major League Baseball, the NBA and NFL.
"It was a surprising fact some years ago, but the American Hockey League and National Hockey League all know that women are really attracted to the sport," said John Pettit, Iowa Stars president, who also held top management positions at Detroit's Joe Louis Arena and with the AHL's Hartford franchise. "The surprising thing is they'll often come kicking and screaming with their husbands. But after that, they'll be bringing the husbands kicking and screaming."
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12/21/06 at 10:42 AM ET | Comments (0)
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So if you're heading out for some last-minute shopping, here's what to pick up for the NHL team on your list:
Los Angeles: If only the Kings could somehow ship Jimmy Carson and $15 million to Pittsburgh in exchange for Sidney Crosby…
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Marketing The NHL
12/21/06 at 10:38 AM ET | Comments (0)
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Still, the NHL's clumsy handling of one of its greatest assets registers with Reitman. In Crosby, the NHL has a young, media-genic superstar with immense crossover appeal. In Alexander Ovechkin, the league has a similar talent and the perfect foil for Crosby.
So how do you market these two dazzling stars? How do you maximize their presence around the league?
"Crosby and Ovechkin are hockey's Bird and Magic," Reitman said. "But it's even better than that. It's North America versus Europe. It's Rocky IV [the Ivan Drago one].
"It's what works in the NBA. It's heroes and villains. It's story-telling."
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Recalling Junior Days
12/21/06 at 10:33 AM ET | Comments (0)
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It is the Calgary Flames' longest trip of the winter.
It is also presently snowed under in Denver.
"Oh, I've got a story," says defenceman Robyn Regehr, overhearing one tale of road woe and anxious to contribute another.
Regehr isn't alone.
Every player in that dressing room, every coach on that bench, every broadcaster in that booth, has a story that can punch a hole in the Flames' current cruise, a story that can punch a hole in the hardship of most National Hockey League journeys.
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Could Balsillie Still Buy The Pens
12/21/06 at 10:30 AM ET | Comments (0)
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Wednesday, Balsillie said he was prepared to make another bid for the team.
"All it takes is three motivated parties and a five-minute phone call to get this deal back on track," he said in a e-mail referring to himself, the NHL and the Penguins' current owners. "We've fully studied the situation, and are prepared to complete the purchase and immediately commence good faith 'Plan B' negotiations with the government officials to keep the team in Pittsburgh."
It's not clear whether the owners would welcome Balsillie back. On Monday, Lemieux said he was "shocked and offended" by Balsillie's withdrawal and threatened to withhold his $10-million deposit.
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Murphy Gives Advice
12/21/06 at 10:17 AM ET | Comments (0)
from the Toronto Sun,
Larry Murphy yesterday offered up some advice for 6-foot-7 scapegoat Hal Gill, the newest whipping boy of the Leafs Nation.
Should Gill invest in some earplugs, perhaps?
"Nah. I would just tell him not to let (the jeers) be a distraction," Murphy, now an NHL broadcaster, said during a phone interview from Detroit last night.
Murphy is sympathetic to the plight of Gill, who was booed whenever he touched the puck by the fans in the final two periods of the Maple Leafs' 7-3 loss to the Florida Panthers Tuesday at the Air Canada Centre.
After all, Murphy knows all too well what it is like to absorb the wrath of the fickle Leafs supporters
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Mailing It In
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12/21/06 at 09:46 AM ET | Comments (0)
Yes, the Wings won last night. Yes, Dan Cleary's a remarkable story. And, yes, Dominik Hasek was brilliant. But you knew he would be. You knew he'd get the start and you knew he'd be even more motivated than usual. Everyone knew that right? Ansar Khan(!)/MLive, 20 December
Chris Osgood, who stopped 14-of-15 shots over the final two periods in relief of Dominik Hasek Monday, is likely to make his first start in goal tonight since Nov. 2, when the Blue Jackets visit the Wings.
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All About Moving
12/20/06 at 09:36 PM ET | Comments (0)
Scott Burnside of ESPN suggests a few teams should move before the Penguins. Washington, Florida and Nashville made his list.
Find out why... and read about previous team moves, some good and some bad.
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People who are looking forward to beating the heat this summer can rejoice as the renovated swimming pool at Mahatma Gandhi Stadium in the city will be thrown open to the public on Friday.
Constructed by the Tamil Nadu Sports Development Authority in 2003 at a cost of Rs. 53 lakh, children and common people used the pool to learn swimming and to beat the heat.
With a few incidents of death and injuries reported in swimming pools in the State, the depth of pool was reduced from 13.5 metre to 6.5 metre at a cost of Rs. 6 lakh. Tiles were fixed and water was filled in the pool.
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It must have been a long time between test matches, because an unusually large number of my friends aren't staying at home tonight to watch a movie or having dinner with friends - instead they're all off to Eden Park to watch the first All Black match of the year, against England. The All Blacks team was announced last weekend and, not surprisingly, Ma'a Nonu was included in the line-up. Known for his powerful attacking runs and tackles, Nonu has become a key member of the squad.
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