In the field of speech bandwidth exten-sion,it is difficult to achieve high speech quality based on the shallow statistical model method.Although the application of deep learning has greatly improved the extended spee...In the field of speech bandwidth exten-sion,it is difficult to achieve high speech quality based on the shallow statistical model method.Although the application of deep learning has greatly improved the extended speech quality,the high model complex-ity makes it infeasible to run on the client.In order to tackle these issues,this paper proposes an end-to-end speech bandwidth extension method based on a temporal convolutional neural network,which greatly reduces the complexity of the model.In addition,a new time-frequency loss function is designed to en-able narrowband speech to acquire a more accurate wideband mapping in the time domain and the fre-quency domain.The experimental results show that the reconstructed wideband speech generated by the proposed method is superior to the traditional heuris-tic rule based approaches and the conventional neu-ral network methods for both subjective and objective evaluation.展开更多
文摘In the field of speech bandwidth exten-sion,it is difficult to achieve high speech quality based on the shallow statistical model method.Although the application of deep learning has greatly improved the extended speech quality,the high model complex-ity makes it infeasible to run on the client.In order to tackle these issues,this paper proposes an end-to-end speech bandwidth extension method based on a temporal convolutional neural network,which greatly reduces the complexity of the model.In addition,a new time-frequency loss function is designed to en-able narrowband speech to acquire a more accurate wideband mapping in the time domain and the fre-quency domain.The experimental results show that the reconstructed wideband speech generated by the proposed method is superior to the traditional heuris-tic rule based approaches and the conventional neu-ral network methods for both subjective and objective evaluation.
