Implementation and Overall Performance Evaluation of CELP Based GSM AMR NB Coder over ABE

In today's wireless communication system, quality of decoded speech at receiving end is found muffled and thin, mainly attributed to inherent band limitation (300-3400 Hz) and power constraints. In order to obtain toll quality of recovered speech in terms of intelligibility and naturalness in wireless systems, Narrowband (NB) speech coders should be upgraded to its counterpart Wideband (WB) coders (50-7000Hz). In the meantime, a novel and backward compatible solution is proposed that claims to artificially extend bandwidth of NB speech to WB at receiving end, popular as Artificial Bandwidth Extension (ABE). Out of many techniques which aim to mitigate the effect of the ever unpredictable channel conditions, Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) NB coder is considered to be one of the potential candidates. Selection of particular bit rate mode (out of all eight bit rate modes between 4.75 kbps and 12.2 kbps) solely depends upon the channel condition. This paper discusses development of ABE algorithm for Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) based GSM AMR NB coder, and for the same, MATLAB based e-test bench is created for simulation. Such series of simulations are conducted to discover and gain insight about the overall performance of proposed ABE coder that includes subjective (Mean Opinion Score - MOS) and objective (Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality - PESQ) analyses. The evaluated results for both analyses clearly advocate that proposed ABE coder outperforms legacy GSM AMR 06.90 NB coder.