Real-time harmonic pitch detector

A real-time harmonic pitch detection algorithm has been developed on the Lincoln Digital Voice Terminal (LDVT). The algorithm was designed to be fast and to perform well when the input speech is degraded (i.e., telephone quality) or corrupted with acoustically coupled noise. The algorithm determines the fundamental frequency from the spacing between harmonics in a selected portion of the spectrum. The algorithm was incorporated into a real-time linear prediction vocoder and compared favorably in informal listening tests with the Gold-Rabiner time-domain detector under a variety of adverse conditions.