Telephony Speech Enhancement Using Threshold Estimation Based Data Hiding

Public telephone system 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. Th...

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Published inTurkish journal of computer and mathematics education Vol. 12; no. 10; pp. 4187 - 4196
Main Authors Prasad, N, Sitaramanjaneyulu, P
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Gurgaon Ninety Nine Publication 01.01.2021
Subjects
Bandwidths
Broadband
Frequency ranges
Intelligibility
Narrowband
Speech
Speech processing
Telephone systems
Telephony
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Summary:Public telephone system 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 threshold estimation based technique to provide a perceptually better wideband speech signal. The CELP parameters are extracted from the high frequency components of speech signal existing above NB, which are then spread by using spreading sequences, and are embedded in the NB speech signal using threshold estimation based data hiding technique. 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 log spectral distortion test 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..
ISSN:1309-4653