The Hybrid Bandwidth Extenstion Method Using Spectral Folding and GMM Transformation

Spectral Folding방법과 GMM 변환을 이용한 대역폭 확장의 Hybrid 방법

The narrowband speech over the telephone network is lacking in the information from low-band (0-300 Hz) and high-band (3400-8000 Hz) that are found in wideband speech (0-8000 Hz). As a result, narrowband speech is characterized by the reduced intelligibility and muffled quality, and degraded speaker identification. Spectral folding is the easiest way to reconstruct the missing high-band; however, the reconstructed speech still brings the sense of band-limited characteristic because of the absence of low-band and mid-band frequency components. To compensate for the lack of the extended speech, we propose to combine the spectral folding method and GMM transformation method, which is a statistical method to reconstruct wideband speech. The reconstructed wideband speech showed that the absent frequency components was filled up with relatively low spectral mismatch. According to the subjective speech quality evaluations, the proposed method was preferred to other methods.