Artificial bandwidth extension of speech signals using MMSE estimation based on a hidden Markov model

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 680-683

  Jax, Peter ^a   Vary, Peter ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH EXTENSION;

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0141590582     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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