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Question Paper Code:: Reg. No.
Question Paper Code:: Reg. No.
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Define phoneme.
Distinguish between voiced and unvoiced speech sounds. Define Zero Crossing Rate.
Name any two time domain parameters of speech signal. What is cepstrum?
State how FFT aids to generate a high resolution spectrum analysis. Name the different LPC analysis methods. State how codebook search time can be reduced in CELP. State the principle of HMM.
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Describe the sequence of events leading to auditory nerve spiking when an acoustic pressure wave appears on the outer ear. (16) Or
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Explain in detail why physiological tuning curves and psychoacoustic tuning curves are different. (16) Explain in detail about the method of pitch period estimation for speech signals using auto correlation function. (16) Or
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Using mathematical expressions, discuss in detail, any two methods for extracting the parameters such as energy, average, magnitude, zero crossing rate of a speech signal. (16) Derive an expression for the auditory filter as a function of measured threshold of detecting of a tone when there is no off-frequency listening. (16) Or
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Explain how formant and pitch estimation is done using cepstrum analysis. (16) Draw the block diagram of VELP coder and explain the function of each block. (16) Or
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Describe in detail the linear predictive analysis and synthesis methods for LPC codes. (16) For a speech with roughly 3.4 KHz spectrum, and 8 KHz sampling rate, explain the principle of template based isolated word recognition system. (16) Or (16)
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