Bandwidth limitation (0-4KHz) is a major degradation for the performance of the current speech communication systems. The narrowband speech provides much lower quality and intelligibility than wideband speech (0-8KHz). Speech bandwidth extension technology has been recently investigated to aim at artificially regenerating the missing high-band speech signal. This paper describes a robust speech bandwidth extension system by an improved codebook mapping method (CM-IPC), which includes a modified codebook training towards increased phonetic classification, marginal LSF interpolation, codebook mapping with memory, and codebook interpolation. A variety of experiments, in clean and noisy environments, were conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. The results indicate the improvement in objective quality measures. The proposed system can also be applied to the feature extension estimation of speech signals.
Cite as: Hu, R., Krishnan, V., Anderson, D.V. (2005) Speech bandwidth extension by improved codebook mapping towards increased phonetic classification. Proc. Interspeech 2005, 1501-1504, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2005-527
@inproceedings{hu05c_interspeech,
author={Rongqiang Hu and Venkatesh Krishnan and David V. Anderson},
title={{Speech bandwidth extension by improved codebook mapping towards increased phonetic classification}},
year=2005,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2005},
pages={1501--1504},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2005-527}
}