Patent 7797156 was granted and assigned to Raytheon BBN Technologies on September, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Presented herein are systems and methods for generating an adaptive noise codebook for use with electronic speech systems. The noise codebook includes a plurality of entries which may be updated based on environmental noise sounds. The speech system includes a speech codebook and the adaptive noise codebook. The system identifies speech sounds in an audio signal using the speech and noise codebooks.