A
system and method are disclosed for extending the bandwidth of a
narrowband signal such as a speech
signal. The method applies a parametric approach to
bandwidth extension but does not require training. The parametric representation relates to a discrete acoustic tube model (DATM). The method comprises computing
narrowband linear predictive coefficients (LPCs) from a received
narrowband speech
signal, computing narrowband partial correlation coefficients (parcors) using
recursion, computing Mnb area coefficients from the partial
correlation coefficient, and extracting Mwb area coefficients using interpolation.
Wideband parcors are computed from the Mwb area coefficients and
wideband LPCs are computed from the
wideband parcors. The method further comprises synthesizing a
wideband signal using the wideband LPCs and a wideband
excitation signal, highpass filtering the synthesized
wideband signal to produce a highband signal, and combining the highband signal with the original narrowband signal to generate a
wideband signal. In a preferred variation of the invention, the Mnb area coefficients are converted to log-area coefficients for the purpose of extracting, through shifted-interpolation, Mwb log-area coefficients. The Mwb log-area coefficients are then converted to Mwb area coefficients before generating the wideband parcors.