On artificial bandwidth extension of telephone speech

Signal Processing

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1707-1719

  Jax, Peter ^a   Vary, Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; TELEPHONE;

NARROWBAND TRANSMISSION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0038383054     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(03)00082-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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