Yuki Yoshida

Reconstruction of wideband speech from narrowband speech using codebooks

A wideband speech signal (8 kHz, for example) of high quantity is reconstructed from a narrowband speech signal (300 Hz to 3.4 kHz). The input narrowband speech signal is LPC-analyzed to obtain spectrum information parameters, and the parameters are vector-quantized using a narrowband speech signal codebook. For each code number of the narrowband speech signal codebook, the wideband speech waveform corresponding to the codevector concerned is extracted by one pitch for voiced speech and by one frame for unvoiced speech and prestored in a representative waveform codebook. Representative waveform segments corresponding to the respective output codevector numbers of the quantizer are extracted from the representative waveform codebook. Voiced speech is synthesized by pitch-synchronous overlapping of the extracted representative waveform segments and unvoiced speech is synthesized by randomly using waveforms of one frame length. By this, a wideband speech signal is produced. Then, frequency components below 300 Hz and above 3.4 kHz are extracted from the wideband speech signal and are added to an up-sampled version of the input narrowband speech signal to thereby reconstruct the wideband speech signal.