Speech processing with Walsh-Hadamard transforms

Abstract

High-speed algorithms to compute the discrete Hadamard and Walsh transforms of speech waveforms have been developed. Intelligible speech has been reconstructed from dominant Hadamard or Walsh coefficients on a medium sized computer in a non-real-time mode. Degradation of some phonemes was noted at low bit rates of reconstruction, but the reconstruction could be improved by varying the position of the sampling window. A digital processor, which allows real-time analysis of speech to be conducted on the system, is described.