The Multi Band Excitation vocoder was developed by Griffin in MIT in 1987. Subsequently the improved MBE was adopted by Inmarsat as a standard for satellite voice communications.

• 多带激励声码器（MBE）由MIT的Grifin在1987年提出，其改进算法（IMBE）已被IN－MARSAT采纳作为卫星话音通信的标准。