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- Title
Speech Bandwidth Extension Aided by Magnitude Spectrum Data Hiding.
- Authors
Prasad, N.; Kishore Kumar, T.
- Abstract
Public telephone systems transmit speech across a limited frequency range, about 300-3400 Hz, called narrowband (NB) which results in a significant reduction of quality and intelligibility of speech. This paper proposes a fully backward compatible novel method for bandwidth extension of NB speech. The method uses magnitude spectrum data hiding technique to provide a perceptually better wideband speech signal. The spectral envelope parameters are extracted from the down-sampled frequency shifted version of the high-frequency components of speech signal existing above NB, which are then encoded and spread by using spreading sequences, and are embedded in the low-amplitude high-frequency regions of the magnitude spectrum of NB speech signal. The embedded information is extracted at the receiving end to reconstruct the wideband speech signal. Theoretical and simulation analyses show that the proposed method is robust to quantization and channel noises. The comparison category rating listening and log spectral distortion tests clearly show that the reconstructed wideband signal gives a much better performance in terms of speech quality when compared to the conventional speech bandwidth extension methods employing data hiding.
- Subjects
COMPUTER software development; VOICE frequency; TELEPHONE systems; ACOUSTIC signal processing; ELECTRONIC noise
- Publication
Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing, 2017, Vol 36, Issue 11, p4512
- ISSN
0278-081X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00034-017-0526-5