A subjective listening test of six different artificial bandwidth extension approaches in English, Chinese, German, and Korean

Johannes Abel; Magdalena Kaniewska; Cyril Guillaume; Wouter Tirry; Hannu Pulakka; Ville Myllyla; Jari Sjoberg; Paavo Alku; Itai Katsir; David Malah; Israel Cohen; M. A.Tugtekin Turan; Engin Erzin; Thomas Schlien; Peter Vary; Amr H. Nour-Eldin; Peter Kabal; Tim Fingscheidt

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472812

A subjective listening test of six different artificial bandwidth extension approaches in English, Chinese, German, and Korean

Johannes Abel, Magdalena Kaniewska, Cyril Guillaume, Wouter Tirry, Hannu Pulakka, Ville Myllyla, Jari Sjoberg, Paavo Alku, Itai Katsir, David Malah, Israel Cohen, M. A.Tugtekin Turan, Engin Erzin, Thomas Schlien, Peter Vary, Amr H. Nour-Eldin, Peter Kabal, Tim Fingscheidt

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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Abstract

In studies on artificial bandwidth extension (ABE), there is a lack of international coordination in subjective tests between multiple methods and languages. Here we present the design of absolute category rating listening tests evaluating 12 ABE variants of six approaches in multiple languages, namely in American English, Chinese, German, and Korean. Since the number of ABE variants caused a higher-than-recommended length of the listening test, ABE variants were distributed into two separate listening tests per language. The paper focuses on the listening test design, which aimed at merging the subjective scores of both tests and thus allows for a joint analysis of all ABE variants under test at once. A language-dependent analysis, evaluating ABE variants in the context of the underlying coded narrowband speech condition showed statistical significant improvement in English, German, and Korean for some ABE solutions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Proceedings
Pages	5915-5919
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479999880
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472812
State	Published - 18 May 2016
Event	41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Shanghai, China Duration: 20 Mar 2016 → 25 Mar 2016

Publication series

Name	ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume	2016-May

Conference

Conference	41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016
Country/Territory	China
City	Shanghai
Period	20/03/16 → 25/03/16

Keywords

ACR
artificial bandwidth extension
listening test

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Software
Signal Processing
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Abel, J., Kaniewska, M., Guillaume, C., Tirry, W., Pulakka, H., Myllyla, V., Sjoberg, J., Alku, P., Katsir, I., Malah, D., Cohen, I., Turan, M. A. T., Erzin, E., Schlien, T., Vary, P., Nour-Eldin, A. H., Kabal, P., & Fingscheidt, T. (2016). A subjective listening test of six different artificial bandwidth extension approaches in English, Chinese, German, and Korean. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Proceedings (pp. 5915-5919). Article 7472812 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings; Vol. 2016-May). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472812

Abel, Johannes ; Kaniewska, Magdalena ; Guillaume, Cyril et al. / A subjective listening test of six different artificial bandwidth extension approaches in English, Chinese, German, and Korean. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Proceedings. 2016. pp. 5915-5919 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings).

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A subjective listening test of six different artificial bandwidth extension approaches in English, Chinese, German, and Korean. / Abel, Johannes; Kaniewska, Magdalena; Guillaume, Cyril et al.
2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Proceedings. 2016. p. 5915-5919 7472812 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings; Vol. 2016-May).

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