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Linear-scale perceptual feature extraction for Speech Bandwidth Extensions
2011 Volume 8 Issue 14 Pages 1143-1148
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2011 Volume 8 Issue 14 Pages 1143-1148
This paper presents a new method to extract linear-scale perceptual feature as a subsitute of MFCCs for highband (3.4kHz∼) in Speech Bandwidth Extensions(BWE). The feature extraction method is based on the mel-scale constrained Nonnegative Matrix Factorization(NMF), which decompose linear-scale log spectrum into a linear combination of mel-scale latent variables. While MFCCs parametrization contains non-invertible procedures, suggested feature is represented in linear-scale and proper to recover the highband time-domain speech. Experiment results report that suggested feature shows better instrumental performance with narrowband MFCCs than real cepstrum without additional computation.
