The haptic communication system 1800 extracts 1880 parameters 1852 from sensor signals 1806 describing a message for transmission to a user. The parameters 1852 may be extracted using the parameter extractor 1842 described above. In one embodiment, the parameter extractor 1842 may decompose the sensor signals 1806 into frequency bands 1846 using an array of band-pass filters 1844 that span the speech spectrum.
The haptic communication system 1800 generates 1882 broadband carrier signals 1828 by aggregating frequency components. The broadband carrier signals 1828 may include many frequency components including a wide range of frequencies that can be transmitted, recorded, and manipulated. In one embodiment, the broadband carrier signals 1828 may include a number of frequency components having nearly equal power or amplitude at different frequencies, thus giving the broadband carrier signals 1828 a uniform power spectrum 1862.