A Computational Efficient Method For Bandwidth Extension of a Conference Phone

This paper presents a computationally efficient method for extension of the bandwidth of a conference telephone. The proposed method allows an improvement in quality, i.e. increased bandwidth, at a negligible extra computational cost. This is performed by a combination of an acoustic echo cancellation unit and an adaptive gain unit. The proposed method was implemented in a real-time system. Frequency analysis in combination with subjective tests showed that the proposed method extends the bandwidth with high quality