Neural network-based artificial bandwidth expansion of speech

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 873-881

  Kontio, Juho ^a   Laaksonen, Laura ^b   Alku, Paavo ^c  

^a Bugbear Entertainment   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Artificial bandwidth expansion; Genetic algorithm; Neural network; Neuroevolution; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL BANDWIDTH EXPANSION; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LIMITED BANDWIDTHS; NARROW BANDS; NEUROEVOLUTION; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SPEECH SIGNALS; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TESTS; TEST CASE; TRANSMISSION LINKS;

BANDWIDTH; EXPANSION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 51449111096     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.885934     Document Type: Article

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