Speech enhancement for bandlimited speech
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Throughout the history of telecommunication, speech has rarely been transmitted with its full analog bandwidth (0 to 8 kHz or more) due to limitations in channel bandwidth. This impaired legacy continues with tactical voice communication. The passband of a voice terminal is typically 0 to 4 kHz. Hence, high-frequency speech components (4 to 8 kHz) are removed prior to transmission. As a result, speech intelligibility suffers, particularly for low-data-rate vocoders. In this paper, we describe our speech-processing technique, which permits some of the upperband speech components to be translated into the passband of the vocoder. According to our test results, speech intelligibility is improved by as much as three to four points even for the Department of Defense-standard mixed excitation linear predictor (MELP) 2.4 kb/s vocoder. Note that speech intelligibility is improved without expanding the transmission bandwidth or compromising interoperability with others.
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