Abstract:
A signal processing circuit amplifies low level modulated radio frequency signals in an efficient manner which minimizes the amount of undesired splatter components generated. The envelope of the signal is derived from envelope detector 120 and clipped (130) when below a set threshold (Fig. 4c). During this dipped interval, the other channel (150,160, 170) amplifies the input signal linearly: during the non-clipped interval the channel (150,160,170) operates in e.g. class C mode. The output signal is obtained from modulating one channel with the other in modulator 180.
Abstract:
A method for time-scale modification of speech using a modified version of the Waveform Similarity based Overlap-Add technique (WSOLA) comprises the steps of storing a portion of an input speech signal in a memory, analysing the portion of the input speech signal providing an estimated pitch value (12), determining a segment size (14) in response to the estimated pitch value and time-scaling (18) the input speech signal for a given time-scaling factor and in response to the determined segment size.