A DNN Based Post-filter To Enhance The Quality Of Coded Speech In MDCT Domain

Abstract

Frequency domain processing, and in particular the use of Modified Discrete Cosine Transform (MDCT), is the most widespread approach to audio coding. However, at low bitrates, audio quality, especially for speech, degrades drastically due to the lack of available bits to directly code the transform coefficients. Traditionally, post-filtering has been used to mitigate artefacts in the coded speech by exploiting a-priori information of the source and extra transmitted parameters. Recently, data-driven post-filters have shown better results, but at the cost of significant additional complexity and delay. In this work, we propose a mask-based post-filter operating directly in MDCT domain of the codec, inducing no extra delay. The real-valued mask is applied to the quantized MDCT coefficients and is estimated from a relatively lightweight convolutional encoder-decoder network. Our solution is tested on the recently standardized low-delay, low-complexity codec (LC3) at lowest possible bitrat

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