Abstract
An audio signal may be decomposed into components having certain frequency and phase. Half the information of the signal is contained in the phase of the frequency components. Since the human ear is almost insensitive to phase, one may eliminate the phase information without causing a noticeable reduction in the signal quality. The elimination of the phase information implies a permissible reduction of the bandwidth required for the transmission of the signal to one-half and a reduction of the signal power by 3 dB without increase of distortions due to additive white normal noise. A method for the elimination of the phase information is based on the decomposition of the audio signal by correlation with a set of orthogonal functions. These correlations yield for each orthogonal function one coefficient which is represented by a voltage. One may process these coefficients in analogue or digital computers to reduce further the bandwidth required for the transmission of audio signals with certain spectral distribution, e. g. voice signals.
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