On the inversion of Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients for speech enhancement applications

Laura E. Boucheron, Phillip L. De Leon · 2008

The use of Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) is well established in the fields of speech processing, particularly for speaker modeling within a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) speaker recognition system. The use of GMMs for speech enhancement applications has only recently been proposed in the literature; the concept of direct inversion of the MFCCs, however, has not been studied. In this paper we present a means to invert MFCCs for use in speech enhancement applications. Results for cepstral inversion is evaluated on the TIMIT speech corpus using perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ).

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