Quality enhancement of narrowband CELP-coded speech via wideband harmonic re-synthesis

Results for improving the quality of narrowband CELP-coded speech by enhancing the pitch periodicity and by regenerating the high-band components of speech spectra are reported. Multiband excitation (MBE) analysis is applied to enhance the pitch periodicity by re-synthesizing the speech signal using a harmonic synthesizer. The high-band magnitude spectra are regenerated by matching to low-band spectra using a trained wideband spectral codebook. Information about the voiced/unvoiced (V/UV) excitation in the high-band is derived from a training procedure and recovered by using the matched low-band index. Simulation results indicate that the quality of the wideband enhanced speech is significantly improved over the narrowband CELP-coded speech.

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