Abstract:
A method including causing, at least in part, display of selectable objects on a graphical user interface, where each of the selectable objects corresponds to data or an application accessible via the graphical user interface. The methodfurther includes causing, at least in part, display of the selectable objects in motion travelling across the graphical user interface based on a category of the selectable objector context dependent data, and allowing user selection and manipulationofthe selectable objects displayed on the graphical user interface.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a support of a concatenative TTS synthesis. In order to generate a speech database as a basis for the TTS synthesis, first, a speech processing including a segmental parametric speech encoding of speech data based on a parametric modeling of speech is performed, which results in compressed parameterized speech segments. Then, the compressed parameterized speech segments are assembled in a speech database. In order to synthesize output speech, compressed parameterized speech segments are selected from the speech database based on an available text and decompressed to regain parameterized speech segments. The parameterized speech segments are then concatenated in a parameter domain. The output speech is synthesized based on these concatenated parametric speech segments .
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for transmitting background noise information in a communication system in which the information to be transmitted is formed into data frames, said data frames are subjected to channel coding to form channel-coded frames, said channel-coded frames are interleaved to be transmitted in two or more data transmission frames (501-516), and information of two channel-coded frames is transmitted in each data transmission frame (501-516). Background noise information to be transmitted at a time if formed into at least a first silence descriptor frame (SID) which is provided with a silence descriptor identifier (SID-CW). Said first silence descriptor frame (SID) is subjected to channel coding to form a channel-coded silence descriptor frame. Said channel-coded silence descriptor frame is transmitted in two or more data transmission frames (502, 503; 506, 507; 510, 511; 514, 515), and at least one data transmission frame (502, 503; 506, 507; 510, 511; 514, 515) transmitting said channel-coded silence descriptor frame is also used as an extra signalling channel (SIG-CH).
Abstract:
A method of transmitting a codeword over a transmission channel using a plurality of radio bursts. The codeword comprises a first sequence of time ordered protected bits and a second sequence of time ordered unprotected bits, and the radio bursts together provide a set of time ordered bit positions. Successive bits of said first sequence are allocated to the radio bursts in a cyclical manner so that adjacent protected bits are allocated to different radio bursts, whilst successive bits of said second sequence are allocated to remaining bit positions of the radio bursts in the time order of those remaining bit positions. The radio bursts are then transmitted sequentially on different frequency bands.
Abstract:
A system and method for locating a preferable playback start location after a winding or rewinding action in an audio playing device. In response to an adjustment of the playing location for audio content to a desired playing position, the system determines whether at least one non-speech or silent period of at least a predetermined duration exists within the vicinity of the desired playing position. If at least one such non- speech or silent period exists within the vicinity of the desired playing position, the system adjusts the playing position to fall within one of the at least one non-speech period or silent period.
Abstract:
According to an aspect of the invention, an enhanced audible feedback solution has been invented for electronic devices using an input device facilitating navigation through a plurality of available user interface input options and confirmation of a selected input option. The electronic device is arranged to define, as a response to detecting a selection of a character (304) on the basis of a detection of a first input to an input device of the electronic device, an audio segment specific to the character (306). The electronic device is arranged to output the defined audio segment (308) via the audio output means prior to a confirmation (310) by a second input to the input device, the second input being associated with a function adding the character as part of a character sequence (312) entered by the user.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to processing speech coding parameters in a telecommunication system. The speech coding parameters of a speech frame, produced by a speech encoder, are divided into groups, i.e. so-called virtual channels, in which speech parameter error correction, channel coding and processing of error-free or erroneous speech parameters are performed independently. At the receiving end, the processing (505) of erroneous and error-free speech parameters can thus be controlled independently on each virtual transmission channel (502) according to the quality of each virtual transmission channel. The speech parameters of the high-quality virtual channels of a speech frame can thus be processed as error-free, replacing the speech coding parameters of the low-quality virtual channels only. The independently processed (505) speech parameters of the virtual channels are thus reassembled (507) into a speech frame, which is applied to decoding. Since part of the information of also erroneous speech frames is utilized, the use of speech information received from a transmission channel can be increased in speech decoding, which reduces for instance interruptions occurring in speech as compared with a situation where all speech frames erroneous even to a slight degree were discarded. The increased and more focused error indication also reduces the number of undetected errors and thus reduces significantly the worst audible disturbances.
Abstract:
When several successive bad frames are received, a speech signal applied to an audio speaker is muted after a certain period of time, whereby the user may switch the phone off even though it is possible for the transmission channel to regain its good quality. Instead of the muting of the phone, the user is, according to the invention, given a specific indication, a weak noise signal, for example, indicating that the call synthesization has been discontinued on purpose. The noise signal may be generated in a noise generator (300) prior to a speech decoder (108), and the noise signal is summed (301) with the attenuated parameter values (209) of the frames (105) substituted during subsitution process.
Abstract:
A method and arrangements are provided for transmitting frames of digital information over a wireless communication connection between a transmitter and a receiver. In the transmitter, a certain sequence of bits within each frame of digital information is convolutionally encoded and punctured (112) before transmitting the frame over a wireless communication connection. The receiver decodes and depunctures (211) the sequence of bits within each frame of digital information, that was convolutionally encoded and punctured, after receiving the frame over a wireless communication connection. The transmitter rearranges (411) the sequence of bits within each frame of digital information that is to be convolutionally encoded and punctured, before convolutionally encoding and puncturing (112) it. The rearranged order is one that has been found to produce, during the course of convolutionally encoding with a certain convolutional code and puncturing with a certain puncturing pattern, a convolutionally encoded and punctured sequence where the statistical probability of transmission errors exhibits a predefined behaviour (701). In the receiver, the sequence of bits within each frame of digital information that was so rearranged in the transmitter is inversely rearranged (611) so that the effect of said rearranging in the transmitter on the mutual order of the bits of the sequence is cancelled, after decoding and depuncturing the sequence of bits.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an encoder (200) comprising an input (201) for inputting frames of an audio signal in a frequency band, at least a first excitation block (206) for performing a first excitation for a speech like audio signal, and a second excitation block (207) for performing a second excitation for a non-speech like audio signal. The encoder (200) further comprises a filter (300) for dividing the frequency band into a plurality of sub bands each having a narrower bandwidth than said frequency band. The encoder (200) also comprises an excitation selection block (203) for selecting one excitation block among said at least first excitation block (206) and said second excitation block (207) for performing the excitation for a frame of the audio signal on the basis of the properties of the audio signal at least at one of said sub bands. The invention also relates to a device, a system, a method and a storage medium for a computer program.