Declipping of Speech Signals Using Frequency Selective Extrapolation
Conference: Speech Communication - 11. ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation
09/24/2014 - 09/26/2014 at Erlangen, Deutschland
Proceedings: Speech Communication
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Jonscher, Markus; Seiler, Juergen; Kaup, Andre (Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Cauerstr. 7, 91058 Erlangen, Germany)
Abstract:
The reconstruction of clipped speech signals is an important task in audio signal processing to achieve an enhanced audio quality for further processing. In this paper, Frequency Selective Extrapolation (FSE), which is commonly used for error concealment or the reconstruction of incomplete image data, is adapted to be able to restore audio signals which are distorted from clipping. For this, FSE generates a model of the signal as an iterative superposition of Fourier basis functions. Clipped samples can then be replaced by estimated samples from the model. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by using different speech test data sets. Compared to other stateof- the-art declipping algorithms, this leads to a maximum gain in SNR of up to 3:5 dB and an average gain of 1 dB.