• MALSORI
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• no.48
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• pp.93-105
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• 2003

Since telephone channel has bandlimited frequency characteristics, speech signal over the telephone channel shows degraded speech quality. In this paper, we propose an algorithm using neural network to reconstruct wideband speech from its narrowband version. Although single neural network is a good tool for direct mapping, it has difficulty in training for vast and complicated data. To alleviate this problem, we modularize the neural networks based on appropriate clustering of the acoustic space. We also introduce fuzzy computing to compensate for probable misclassification at the cluster boundaries. According to our simulation, the proposed algorithm showed improved performance over the single neural network and conventional codebook mapping method in both objective and subjective evaluations.

• MALSORI
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• no.49
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• pp.63-75
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• 2004

Most existing telephone speech transmitted in current public networks is band-limited to 0.3-3.4 kHz. Compared with wideband speech(0-8 kHz), the narrowband speech lacks low-band (0-0.3 kHz) and high-band(3.4-8 kHz) components of sound. As a result, the speech is characterized by the reduced intelligibility and a muffled quality, and degraded speaker identification. Bandwidth extension is a technique to provide wideband speech quality, which means reconstruction of low-band and high-band components without any additional transmitted information. Our new approach considers to exploit harmonic synthesis method for reconstruction of low-band speech over the CELP coded speech. A spectral distortion measurement and listening test are introduced to assess the proposed method, and the improvement of synthesized speech quality was verified.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.175-178
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• 2002

Most existing telephone networks transmit narrowband speech witch has been bandlimited below 4 kHz. Compared with wideband speech up to 8 kHz, narrowband speech shows reduced intelligibility and a muffled quality. Bandwidth extension is a technique to generate wideband speech by reconstructing 4-8 kHz highband speech without any additional information. This paper presents experimental results of the bandwidth extension adopted for 4800 bps CELP speech coder. In this experiment, we examine various methods for reconstruction of wideband spectrum and excitation signal, compare and analyze their performance by performing the subjective preference test and measuring the cepstral distortion.

• MALSORI
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• no.52
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• pp.133-144
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• 2004

The quality of narrowband speech can be enhanced by the bandwidth extension technology. This paper proposes a mixed excitation and an energy compensation method based on Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). First, we employ the mixed excitation model having both periodic and aperiodic characteristics in frequency domain. We use a filter bank to extract the periodicity features from the filtered signals and model them based on GMM to estimate the mixed excitation. Second, we separate the acoustic space into the voiced and unvoiced parts of speech to compensate for the energy difference between narrowband speech and reconstructed highband, or lowband speech, more accurately. Objective and subjective evaluations show that the quality of wideband speech reconstructed by the proposed method is superior to that by the conventional bandwidth extension method.