CA1231788A - Duplex speech transmission method and a system therefor - Google Patents
Duplex speech transmission method and a system thereforInfo
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Abstract
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a duplex speech transmission method and a system therefor and has particular, but not exclusive, application to cordless telephone systems. In known time division duplex transmission systems speech by one party is digitalised at a certain mean bit rate and then time-compressed and applied in alter-nate slots in a speech transmission channel, the remaining slots being used by the other party on the link. The disadvantage of this known system is that when one person is not speaking then his slots on the transmission channel are left vacant. In the method described when it is determined that one party has no valid speech to send in his time slot then the other party is able to use that time slot so that his speech can be digitised at a higher mean bit rate, thereby providing greater fidelity and avoiding vacant slots in the trans-mission channel.
The invention relates to a duplex speech transmission method and a system therefor and has particular, but not exclusive, application to cordless telephone systems. In known time division duplex transmission systems speech by one party is digitalised at a certain mean bit rate and then time-compressed and applied in alter-nate slots in a speech transmission channel, the remaining slots being used by the other party on the link. The disadvantage of this known system is that when one person is not speaking then his slots on the transmission channel are left vacant. In the method described when it is determined that one party has no valid speech to send in his time slot then the other party is able to use that time slot so that his speech can be digitised at a higher mean bit rate, thereby providing greater fidelity and avoiding vacant slots in the trans-mission channel.
Description
~3~'7~3 PHB.33.044 The present invention relates to a duplex speech trans-mission method and a system therefor. The present invention has particular, but not exclusive, application to demand-assigned time division duplex speech transmission systems which may be used in cordless telephone systems.
In the accompanying drawings:
Figure 1 illustrates a time division multiplex system, Figure 2 illustrates an embodiment of a time division duplex system in accordance with the present invention, Figure 3 is a block schematic circuit diagram of the signal input section of a transmitter, and Figure 4 is a block schematic circuit diagram of a transceiver for use in the method in accordance with the present invention.
Time division duplex systems are known per se ~or example Henry, P.S. and Glance, B.S. "A new approach to high capacity digital mobile radio". Bell System Technical Journals October 1981, pp 1891 to 1904. One such system is illustrated in Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings. For the sake of illustration it will be assumed that there is a base station having a transceiver capable o~ duplex operation and a handset haviny a similar type o-F trans-ceiver. Speech emanating from the handset and the base station is split into segments 12 in time, the base station speech signal being shown in the diagram referenced l(i). As the time period on the communication channel has to be used for transmission from both transceivers or either one of them, then in order to do this the segments 12 of speech are time-compressed, usually digitally, by a factor of 2 and transmitted as a time division duplex signal. This is illustrated in diagram l(ii) wherein alternate slots 14 relate to transmission from the handset (H) to the base station (B) and the intervening slots 16 to transmissions from the base station to the handset. The cross-hatched portions 18 between the slots 14, 16 are guard-bands to allow the radio equipment to switch from transmit to receive and vice versa. At the handset, diagram l(iii), the time-compressed base station speech is re-expanded to fill a time ~ L23~7~
PHB.33.044 2 segment 19 of the same length as the segment 12. Although not shown, a similar expansion of the handset speech takes place at the base station.
In time division duplex systems applied to telephone systems it has been found that during a typical call each party speaks for less than 50~ of the time. Accordingly to allocate time slots ;n th;s way ;s clearly a waste of ava;lable capac;ty ;n a transm;ssion channel if there is no information to be transmitted.
An obiect of the present invention is to use the avail-able capacity to increase the quality of a signal transmitted in at;me div;sion duplex system.
Accord;ng to the present invention there ;s provided a duplex speech transmission method where;n the quality of a lim;ted bandwidth transmission channel is degraded if both parties speak simultaneously and the quality is mainta;ned ;f only one party speaks.
The present invention further provides a duplex speech transmission system comprising at least two parties, each party having an apparatus comprising means for detecting if speech is to be transmitted by that apparatus and for signalling accordingly to the other apparatus, means for digitising speech at a lower mean bit rate in response to both apparatus wanting to transmit simul-taneously and at a higher mean bit rate in response to only one of the apparatus wanting to transmit, and means for a time-compressing of the speech digitised at the lower mean bit rate and transmitting it in packets which alternate with packets transmitted by the other apparatus.
In the case of applying the present invention to a cord-less telephone system~ it is possible that the mean data rate for digitising speech will be 32kbits/second. Such a data rate is barely adequate for acceptable speech transmission over telephone links and some degradation of quality is apparent to the user. To reduce the perceptible effects of this degradation it is proposed, in the case of a single person talking, to digitise the speech at a much higher data rate, say 64kbits/second~ which would hardly degrade the speech, but when both parties are calling to use a lower data rate and time-compress each party's speech segment say by a factor of 2 and apply it in alternate slots with the other party's , ~
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PHB.33.044 3 time-compressed speech, to the limited bandwidth transmission chan-nel. Since both parties are talking simultaneously the degradation in speech quality will hardly be perceptible.
In order for the system to detèrmine if a party is speak-ing in his/her segment a speech detector may be provided so that in a short signalling slot or interval an indication can be given as to which of the mean bit rates is to be used and whether time-compres-sion and interleaving of the time compressed slots is required.
Because time for additional signalling on the transmission channel has to be allowed for, then slight time-compression of the signal at the higher mean bit rate may be necessary.
If desired adaptive delta modulation or adaptive differ-ential PCM may be used to digitise the speech either of wh;ch method has the advantages that the normal transmission speed may be twice as high and that one can switch substantially instantaneously between the higher and lower mean bit rates.
The present invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to Figures 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawings.
Referring to Figure 2, it will be assumed that the limited bandwidth transmission channel 7S able to handle a maximum signalling rate of the order of 70kbitslsec. Such a transmission channel may comprise a radio, in~ra-red or a cable link. ~ase station speech, diagram 2(i) ;s divided up into segments having a duration of
In the accompanying drawings:
Figure 1 illustrates a time division multiplex system, Figure 2 illustrates an embodiment of a time division duplex system in accordance with the present invention, Figure 3 is a block schematic circuit diagram of the signal input section of a transmitter, and Figure 4 is a block schematic circuit diagram of a transceiver for use in the method in accordance with the present invention.
Time division duplex systems are known per se ~or example Henry, P.S. and Glance, B.S. "A new approach to high capacity digital mobile radio". Bell System Technical Journals October 1981, pp 1891 to 1904. One such system is illustrated in Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings. For the sake of illustration it will be assumed that there is a base station having a transceiver capable o~ duplex operation and a handset haviny a similar type o-F trans-ceiver. Speech emanating from the handset and the base station is split into segments 12 in time, the base station speech signal being shown in the diagram referenced l(i). As the time period on the communication channel has to be used for transmission from both transceivers or either one of them, then in order to do this the segments 12 of speech are time-compressed, usually digitally, by a factor of 2 and transmitted as a time division duplex signal. This is illustrated in diagram l(ii) wherein alternate slots 14 relate to transmission from the handset (H) to the base station (B) and the intervening slots 16 to transmissions from the base station to the handset. The cross-hatched portions 18 between the slots 14, 16 are guard-bands to allow the radio equipment to switch from transmit to receive and vice versa. At the handset, diagram l(iii), the time-compressed base station speech is re-expanded to fill a time ~ L23~7~
PHB.33.044 2 segment 19 of the same length as the segment 12. Although not shown, a similar expansion of the handset speech takes place at the base station.
In time division duplex systems applied to telephone systems it has been found that during a typical call each party speaks for less than 50~ of the time. Accordingly to allocate time slots ;n th;s way ;s clearly a waste of ava;lable capac;ty ;n a transm;ssion channel if there is no information to be transmitted.
An obiect of the present invention is to use the avail-able capacity to increase the quality of a signal transmitted in at;me div;sion duplex system.
Accord;ng to the present invention there ;s provided a duplex speech transmission method where;n the quality of a lim;ted bandwidth transmission channel is degraded if both parties speak simultaneously and the quality is mainta;ned ;f only one party speaks.
The present invention further provides a duplex speech transmission system comprising at least two parties, each party having an apparatus comprising means for detecting if speech is to be transmitted by that apparatus and for signalling accordingly to the other apparatus, means for digitising speech at a lower mean bit rate in response to both apparatus wanting to transmit simul-taneously and at a higher mean bit rate in response to only one of the apparatus wanting to transmit, and means for a time-compressing of the speech digitised at the lower mean bit rate and transmitting it in packets which alternate with packets transmitted by the other apparatus.
In the case of applying the present invention to a cord-less telephone system~ it is possible that the mean data rate for digitising speech will be 32kbits/second. Such a data rate is barely adequate for acceptable speech transmission over telephone links and some degradation of quality is apparent to the user. To reduce the perceptible effects of this degradation it is proposed, in the case of a single person talking, to digitise the speech at a much higher data rate, say 64kbits/second~ which would hardly degrade the speech, but when both parties are calling to use a lower data rate and time-compress each party's speech segment say by a factor of 2 and apply it in alternate slots with the other party's , ~
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PHB.33.044 3 time-compressed speech, to the limited bandwidth transmission chan-nel. Since both parties are talking simultaneously the degradation in speech quality will hardly be perceptible.
In order for the system to detèrmine if a party is speak-ing in his/her segment a speech detector may be provided so that in a short signalling slot or interval an indication can be given as to which of the mean bit rates is to be used and whether time-compres-sion and interleaving of the time compressed slots is required.
Because time for additional signalling on the transmission channel has to be allowed for, then slight time-compression of the signal at the higher mean bit rate may be necessary.
If desired adaptive delta modulation or adaptive differ-ential PCM may be used to digitise the speech either of wh;ch method has the advantages that the normal transmission speed may be twice as high and that one can switch substantially instantaneously between the higher and lower mean bit rates.
The present invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to Figures 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawings.
Referring to Figure 2, it will be assumed that the limited bandwidth transmission channel 7S able to handle a maximum signalling rate of the order of 70kbitslsec. Such a transmission channel may comprise a radio, in~ra-red or a cable link. ~ase station speech, diagram 2(i) ;s divided up into segments having a duration of
2 milliseconds (ms). Likewise the handset speech signal is divided up into segments of 2 ms duration, the segments being offset by 1 ms relative to those of the base station signal, see diagram 2(iii), so that the transmission of either signal terminates at an instant corresponding to the end of its associated segment. Diagram 2(ii) represents the in~ormation format on the transmission channel.
Both speech signals are digitised before transmission by means of a technique such as adaptive delta modulation or adaptive differential PCM. Such modulation techniques are able to switch from one mean bit rate to another mean bit rate and back again substan-tially instantaneously. The particular mean bit rate which is used at any one time depends on whether one party or both parties wish to talk simultaneously. In accordance with the present invention when both parties are speaking simultaneously then each 2 ms time P9~.33.044 ~ ~ ~ 3 ~ 7 ~ ~ 30.7.198~
segment on the channel has to oontain both segments of speeoh. ~o do this each segmen-t oomprises two slots, each oP 1 ms. One slot in each segment is devoted to each party and the speech is digitised at a low rate of 32 kbits per second and the digitised Bignal iB
time-compressed and transmitted in 1 ms slots at a rate of 6~ kbits per ~econd. This is illustrated by the segment 20 of the base station signal (diagram 2(i), segment 21 of the handset signal (diagram 2(iii)) and the segmen-t 22 of the transmission channel (diagram 2(ii)). The handset to base (H-~) signal precedes the base to handset (~-~H) signal because of the 1 ms offset between the segments. ~t the receiver section of the base station and hand-set the time-compressed signals are expanded to their original width and converted ~o analogue signals for reproduction. Speech digitised at 32 kbits/sec. would not normally be particularly acceptable be-cause o~ the l~ss oP fidelity. ~owever as both parties are talkingsimultaneously then the lo~a oP fidelity will be unnoticed. ~owever, the situation is different if only one party is talking.
In the example illustrated9 it is asæumed that there is still a speech signal from the base station, segments 24 and 26, dia~ram 2(i) but nothing from the handset. Consequently because only one party wants to use the transmission channel which is capable of transmitting at a bit rate of 70 kbits/sec. then it is possible to send the signal with a higher fidelity Consequently the base station aaaptive modulator is switched to digitise the speech signal at a rate of 64 kbits/sec. This signal is time-compressed slightly and transmitted in the slot 28. As will be explained slight time-compression is necessary because of having to allow fvr ad~
ditional signalling. At the receiver in the handset the signal i~
expanded and demodulated in a suitably adapted demodulator.
For signalling purposes a small amount of time, say 5%, is allocated regularly for example at the beginning of each slot fox the base station and handset to indicate if either one is send-ing valid speech and therefore wants its slot. However depending on the signalling will also be -the digitising rate of the transmitting party and the demodulating rate of the receiving party. A simple form of signalling is to send, say, a logical1 if a party has a valid speech to send and a logical O if it has no valid speech.
This latter condition is indicated by arrows 30 in diagram 2(ii) 7~38 PHB.33.0~ 5 30.7.198~
and the former condition by the broken lines 32. Thu~ in a -typioal situation as illustrated in ~igure 2 where for example the person at the handset is not aotually speaking at the time and the person at the base sta-tion is actually speaking and in consequen¢e the base station has valid speech to transmit. ~hen in the base station to handset slot, the base station sends speech and then at the end of that slot it switches to the receive mode ~aiting for the handset to transmit speech. ~ecause the person at the handset is not actually speaking the handset signals to the base station that it has not got any speech to send and the base station can use the slot, immedia-tely thereafter the handset switches back into the receive mode.
The base station now knows that it has more time to transmit speech in and the speech encoder is switched to digitise the speech at the higher mean bit rate thro~gh the duration of the surrendered hand-set slot and its own slot, i.e. the seg~ent 28 in diagram 2(ii).
~he sequence of events is then repeated. Eventually a state is reached when the handset has some speech to transmit, segment ~6 in diagram 2(iii), and when it comes to a valid handset to base station slot, the handset signals that it has got some sp~ech and wants its 2D slot. The handset immediately continues by transmitting its own speech, this time at the lower m3an bit rate and with time-com-pression. ~he base station on recognising this situ2tion has to change its quantisation rate to allow for expanding and demodulating the signal as well as for digitising its own valid speech signal at the lower bit rate. Thus a situation exists where the handset and base station are both transmitting speech in alternate packets comprising half rate digitised speech which has been time-compressed and both of them, at the beginning of their segments are signalling that they are going to use their time slots in the transmission channel. Immediately one person stops talking then the situation reverts to one where that person's apparaf,us signals -that it does not want the slot and it can be used by the other person.
Typically the segments 20, 21, 22 and so on are 2 ms long and in the event of a person commencing to talk say half-way through a segment then that fraction of the conversation will be lost but in any event it will not be noticed. ~owever one has to be careful at what point the quantisation of the original user is changed, To avoid difficulty it is necessary to ensure that there is ~ufficient 6 ~ 7 ~ 8 30.7.198~
speech stored in memories in eaoh apparatus so one has some flex-ibility in the time of switching the quantisation rate. Providing a delay in the system by the use of such memories is no problem but it does mean providing echo cancellers. ~owever eoho cancellers may be mandatory when using segments of 2 ms or longer.
Each apparatus includes a spèech detector ~0 (Pigure 3) and in order to provide adequate time for the detector 40 to pro-duce an output which controls a switching device 42, a delay device 44 is connected to a microphone 46 and the switching contact of the switching device 42. The time delay produced by the device 44 is equivalent to the reaction time of the speech detector 40 so that the speech is delayed until the ol~tput of the detector 40 is valid.
~ he transceiver shown in ~igure 4 effectively comprises a receiver and a complementary transmitter having a master clock generator 50 which is controlled in response to signals from a controller 52 which may be a suitably programmed microprocessor.
The receiver comprises an antenna 54 which is coupled to an r.f. amplifier 56 whose output is coupled to a demodulator 58.
~he demo~ulator 58 determines the signalling information, eOg.
whether or not valid speech is to be sent, which iY passed to -the controller 52. An appropriate control signal is then applied to the cloc~ generator 50.
The digitised information from the demodulator 58 is stored in a RAM 60 at locations determined by a write address gene-rator 62 which is clocked at 70 kbits per second. ~he reading outof the ~AM 60 is controlled by a read address generator 64. The rate of rea.1ing out will either be at 32 kbits/second if the speech/information has been time compressed or at 64 kbits/second if the speech/information has been digitised at the higher mean bit rate. ~he speech read-out from the ~AM 60 is passed to a suit-able decoder 66 such as an adaptive delta-modulator or an adaptive differential PCM demodulator and the analogue output is supplied to a suitable transducer 68.
~he transmitter comprises a microphone 70 whose output is supplied to a suitable digital encoder 72 for example an adapti~e delta modulator or an adaptive differential PCM which is clocked at a rate which is determined by the controller 52 in response to whether the transceiver at the other end of the link has valid ~3~
PHB.33.0~4 7 30.7.19~4 speeoh to send, Whichever olock rate is decided upon this is also supplied to a write address generator 74 which controls the storing of the digitised speeoh/information in a ~AM 76. The reading-out of the ~AM 76 is controlled by a read addr0ss generator 78 which 5 i9 clocked at 70 kbits/sec. The digitised speech is then applied to a modulator 80 and then to a power amplifier 82. An antenna 84 is coupled to the amplifier 82. If the speech/information has been digitised at the lower bit rate then it will be transmitted in packets 86 having a 1:1 mark/space ratio, as shown in ~igure 4.
However if the higher bit rate is used then the pacXets 88 occupy most of the 2 ms segment in the transmission channel.
Although the described embodiment uses the mean bit rates of 64 kbits/sec. and 32 kbits/sec. other bit rates may be used for example a higher one of 32 kbits/sec. and a lower one of 16 kbits/sec.
may be used when the limited bandwidth of the transmission channel say 40 kbits/sec.
Further, although differential encoding has been described in the embodiment of the present invention o-ther forms of encoding may be used such as PCM.
Both speech signals are digitised before transmission by means of a technique such as adaptive delta modulation or adaptive differential PCM. Such modulation techniques are able to switch from one mean bit rate to another mean bit rate and back again substan-tially instantaneously. The particular mean bit rate which is used at any one time depends on whether one party or both parties wish to talk simultaneously. In accordance with the present invention when both parties are speaking simultaneously then each 2 ms time P9~.33.044 ~ ~ ~ 3 ~ 7 ~ ~ 30.7.198~
segment on the channel has to oontain both segments of speeoh. ~o do this each segmen-t oomprises two slots, each oP 1 ms. One slot in each segment is devoted to each party and the speech is digitised at a low rate of 32 kbits per second and the digitised Bignal iB
time-compressed and transmitted in 1 ms slots at a rate of 6~ kbits per ~econd. This is illustrated by the segment 20 of the base station signal (diagram 2(i), segment 21 of the handset signal (diagram 2(iii)) and the segmen-t 22 of the transmission channel (diagram 2(ii)). The handset to base (H-~) signal precedes the base to handset (~-~H) signal because of the 1 ms offset between the segments. ~t the receiver section of the base station and hand-set the time-compressed signals are expanded to their original width and converted ~o analogue signals for reproduction. Speech digitised at 32 kbits/sec. would not normally be particularly acceptable be-cause o~ the l~ss oP fidelity. ~owever as both parties are talkingsimultaneously then the lo~a oP fidelity will be unnoticed. ~owever, the situation is different if only one party is talking.
In the example illustrated9 it is asæumed that there is still a speech signal from the base station, segments 24 and 26, dia~ram 2(i) but nothing from the handset. Consequently because only one party wants to use the transmission channel which is capable of transmitting at a bit rate of 70 kbits/sec. then it is possible to send the signal with a higher fidelity Consequently the base station aaaptive modulator is switched to digitise the speech signal at a rate of 64 kbits/sec. This signal is time-compressed slightly and transmitted in the slot 28. As will be explained slight time-compression is necessary because of having to allow fvr ad~
ditional signalling. At the receiver in the handset the signal i~
expanded and demodulated in a suitably adapted demodulator.
For signalling purposes a small amount of time, say 5%, is allocated regularly for example at the beginning of each slot fox the base station and handset to indicate if either one is send-ing valid speech and therefore wants its slot. However depending on the signalling will also be -the digitising rate of the transmitting party and the demodulating rate of the receiving party. A simple form of signalling is to send, say, a logical1 if a party has a valid speech to send and a logical O if it has no valid speech.
This latter condition is indicated by arrows 30 in diagram 2(ii) 7~38 PHB.33.0~ 5 30.7.198~
and the former condition by the broken lines 32. Thu~ in a -typioal situation as illustrated in ~igure 2 where for example the person at the handset is not aotually speaking at the time and the person at the base sta-tion is actually speaking and in consequen¢e the base station has valid speech to transmit. ~hen in the base station to handset slot, the base station sends speech and then at the end of that slot it switches to the receive mode ~aiting for the handset to transmit speech. ~ecause the person at the handset is not actually speaking the handset signals to the base station that it has not got any speech to send and the base station can use the slot, immedia-tely thereafter the handset switches back into the receive mode.
The base station now knows that it has more time to transmit speech in and the speech encoder is switched to digitise the speech at the higher mean bit rate thro~gh the duration of the surrendered hand-set slot and its own slot, i.e. the seg~ent 28 in diagram 2(ii).
~he sequence of events is then repeated. Eventually a state is reached when the handset has some speech to transmit, segment ~6 in diagram 2(iii), and when it comes to a valid handset to base station slot, the handset signals that it has got some sp~ech and wants its 2D slot. The handset immediately continues by transmitting its own speech, this time at the lower m3an bit rate and with time-com-pression. ~he base station on recognising this situ2tion has to change its quantisation rate to allow for expanding and demodulating the signal as well as for digitising its own valid speech signal at the lower bit rate. Thus a situation exists where the handset and base station are both transmitting speech in alternate packets comprising half rate digitised speech which has been time-compressed and both of them, at the beginning of their segments are signalling that they are going to use their time slots in the transmission channel. Immediately one person stops talking then the situation reverts to one where that person's apparaf,us signals -that it does not want the slot and it can be used by the other person.
Typically the segments 20, 21, 22 and so on are 2 ms long and in the event of a person commencing to talk say half-way through a segment then that fraction of the conversation will be lost but in any event it will not be noticed. ~owever one has to be careful at what point the quantisation of the original user is changed, To avoid difficulty it is necessary to ensure that there is ~ufficient 6 ~ 7 ~ 8 30.7.198~
speech stored in memories in eaoh apparatus so one has some flex-ibility in the time of switching the quantisation rate. Providing a delay in the system by the use of such memories is no problem but it does mean providing echo cancellers. ~owever eoho cancellers may be mandatory when using segments of 2 ms or longer.
Each apparatus includes a spèech detector ~0 (Pigure 3) and in order to provide adequate time for the detector 40 to pro-duce an output which controls a switching device 42, a delay device 44 is connected to a microphone 46 and the switching contact of the switching device 42. The time delay produced by the device 44 is equivalent to the reaction time of the speech detector 40 so that the speech is delayed until the ol~tput of the detector 40 is valid.
~ he transceiver shown in ~igure 4 effectively comprises a receiver and a complementary transmitter having a master clock generator 50 which is controlled in response to signals from a controller 52 which may be a suitably programmed microprocessor.
The receiver comprises an antenna 54 which is coupled to an r.f. amplifier 56 whose output is coupled to a demodulator 58.
~he demo~ulator 58 determines the signalling information, eOg.
whether or not valid speech is to be sent, which iY passed to -the controller 52. An appropriate control signal is then applied to the cloc~ generator 50.
The digitised information from the demodulator 58 is stored in a RAM 60 at locations determined by a write address gene-rator 62 which is clocked at 70 kbits per second. ~he reading outof the ~AM 60 is controlled by a read address generator 64. The rate of rea.1ing out will either be at 32 kbits/second if the speech/information has been time compressed or at 64 kbits/second if the speech/information has been digitised at the higher mean bit rate. ~he speech read-out from the ~AM 60 is passed to a suit-able decoder 66 such as an adaptive delta-modulator or an adaptive differential PCM demodulator and the analogue output is supplied to a suitable transducer 68.
~he transmitter comprises a microphone 70 whose output is supplied to a suitable digital encoder 72 for example an adapti~e delta modulator or an adaptive differential PCM which is clocked at a rate which is determined by the controller 52 in response to whether the transceiver at the other end of the link has valid ~3~
PHB.33.0~4 7 30.7.19~4 speeoh to send, Whichever olock rate is decided upon this is also supplied to a write address generator 74 which controls the storing of the digitised speeoh/information in a ~AM 76. The reading-out of the ~AM 76 is controlled by a read addr0ss generator 78 which 5 i9 clocked at 70 kbits/sec. The digitised speech is then applied to a modulator 80 and then to a power amplifier 82. An antenna 84 is coupled to the amplifier 82. If the speech/information has been digitised at the lower bit rate then it will be transmitted in packets 86 having a 1:1 mark/space ratio, as shown in ~igure 4.
However if the higher bit rate is used then the pacXets 88 occupy most of the 2 ms segment in the transmission channel.
Although the described embodiment uses the mean bit rates of 64 kbits/sec. and 32 kbits/sec. other bit rates may be used for example a higher one of 32 kbits/sec. and a lower one of 16 kbits/sec.
may be used when the limited bandwidth of the transmission channel say 40 kbits/sec.
Further, although differential encoding has been described in the embodiment of the present invention o-ther forms of encoding may be used such as PCM.
Claims (8)
PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A method of duplex speech transmission wherein a limited bandwidth transmission channel is divided into a plurality of suc-cessive time slots, alternate time slots being allocated to speech from each of two parties; segments of speech are digitised and stored at a higher mean bit rate if only one party is speaking at any instant, each higher mean bit rate digitised speech segment being transmitted within the duration of two successive time slots; and segments of speech are digitised and stored at a lower mean bit rate if both parties are speaking in successive time slots, packets of such lower mean bit rate digitised speech segments from both parties being time-compressed and applied to the transmission channel during respective alternate time slots.
2. A method as claimed in Claim 1 wherein the speech signal from each party is divided into segments and each party signal to the other party whether speech is to be sent in the time slot associ-ated with a speech segment of the signalling party and the mean bit rate for digitising and storing the speech segment of the other party during that time slot is determined in response to the signal received from the signalling party.
3. A method as claimed in Claim 1 wherein each speech segment and is associated time slot terminate substantially simultaneously.
4. A method of duplex speech transmission wherein a limited bandwidth transmission channel is divided into a plurality of suc-cessive time slots, alternate time slots being allocated to speech from each of two parties; speech signals from each of the parties are divided into time segments with the time segments associated with either party being offset in time with respect to the time segments associated with the other party; segments of speech when present are digitised and stored, a higher digitising rate being used when speech is present in the time segment of one party and not in the time seg-ment of the other party, said higher rate digitised signal being transmitted in the other party's time slot and the immediately follow-ing time slot of said one party, and a lower digitising rate being used when both parties have speech in their time segments, the lower rate digitised signals being time compressed and transmitted in their associated time slots; and wherein the end of any time segment coin-cides substantially with the end of the time slot associated with said time segment.
5. A duplex communication system for use on a limited band-width transmission channel which is divided into a plurality of suc-cessive time slots, alternate time slots being allocated to each of two transceivers for transmission of speech between such transceivers;
each such transceiver comprising: means for detecting if speech is to be transmitted by such transceiver in a time slot allocated to such transceiver and for signalling accordingly to the other transceiver;
means for digitising and storing segments of speech to be trans-mitted; control means for determining if the other transceiver has signalled that it has a segment of speech to transmit in its time slot and, in response to determining that other transceiver does not have such a segment in such time slot, controlling the digitising means to digitise its speech segment at a higher mean bit rate and to transmit it in two successive time slots; such control means being further adapted, in response to determining that both transceivers have speech segments for simultaneous transmission, to control the digitising means to digitise and store such speech segments at a lower mean bit rate; and means for time-compressing speech segments which have been digitised at the lower mean bit rate and transmitting the digitised speech segments in respective time slots.
each such transceiver comprising: means for detecting if speech is to be transmitted by such transceiver in a time slot allocated to such transceiver and for signalling accordingly to the other transceiver;
means for digitising and storing segments of speech to be trans-mitted; control means for determining if the other transceiver has signalled that it has a segment of speech to transmit in its time slot and, in response to determining that other transceiver does not have such a segment in such time slot, controlling the digitising means to digitise its speech segment at a higher mean bit rate and to transmit it in two successive time slots; such control means being further adapted, in response to determining that both transceivers have speech segments for simultaneous transmission, to control the digitising means to digitise and store such speech segments at a lower mean bit rate; and means for time-compressing speech segments which have been digitised at the lower mean bit rate and transmitting the digitised speech segments in respective time slots.
6. A system as claimed in Claim 5, wherein said digitising means comprises an adaptive differential PCM.
7. A system as claimed in Claim 5, wherein said digitising means comprises an adaptive delta modulator.
8. A system as claimed in Claim 5, wherein each of said transceivers is a cordless telephone.
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