A study of HMM-based bandwidth extension of speech signals

Signal Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2036-2044

  Song, Geun Bae ^a   Martynovich, Pavel ^a  

^a SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bandwidth extension; Baum Welch re estimation algorithm; Dynamic measure; Log spectral distortion

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH EXTENSION; BAUM-WELCH; BAUM-WELCH RE-ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; GAUSSIAN COMPONENTS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GENERAL APPROACH; HMM MODELS; LOG SPECTRAL DISTORTION; NUMBER OF STATE; PERFORMANCE TESTS; REFERENCE METHOD; SPEECH SIGNALS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; STATIC PERFORMANCE; TEST RESULTS; TRAINING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; ESTIMATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

EID: 67349141249     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.03.037     Document Type: Article

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