Speaker-identification-assisted downlink speech processing systems and methods

A communication device, comprising:

• downlink speech processing logic comprising one or more speech signal processing stages, each of the one or more speech signal processing stages being configured to receive speaker identification information that identifies a target speaker and process a respective version of the speech signal in a manner that takes into account the identity of the target speaker, the one or more speech signal processing stages including at least one of:
• a joint source channel decoding stage,
• a bit error concealment stage,
• a packet loss concealment stage,
• a noise suppression stage,
• a speech intelligibility enhancement stage,
• an acoustic shock protection stage, and
• a 3D audio production stage.

A computer readable storage medium having computer program instructions embodied in said computer readable storage medium for enabling a processor to process a speech signal, the computer program instructions including instructions executable to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, by one or more speech signal processing stages in a downlink path of a communication device, speaker identification information that identifies a target speaker;
• and
• processing, by each of the one or more speech signal processing stages, a respective version of the speech signal in a manner that takes into account the identity of the target speaker, wherein the one or more speech signal processing stages include at least one of:
• a joint source channel decoding stage,
• a bit error concealment stage,
• a packet loss concealment stage,
• a noise suppression stage,
• a speech intelligibility enhancement stage,
• an acoustic shock protection stage, and
• a 3D audio production stage.