Artificial bandwidth extension using deep neural network and $H^\infty$ sampled-data control theory

Artificial bandwidth extension is applied to speech signals to improve their quality in narrowband telephonic communication. For accomplishing this, the missing high-frequency (high-band) components of speech signals are recovered by utilizing a new extrapolation process based on sampled-data control theory and deep neural network (DNN). The $H^\infty$ sampled-data control theory helps in designing of a high-band filter to recover the high-frequency signals by optimally utilizing the inter-sample signals. Non-stationary (time-varying) characteristics of speech signals forces to use numerous high-band filters. Hence, we use a deep neural network for estimating the high-band filter information and a gain factor for a specified narrowband information of the unseen signal. The objective analysis is done on the TIMIT dataset and RSR15 dataset. Additionally, the objective analysis is performed separately for the voiced speech as well as for the unvoiced speech as generally needed in speech processing. Subjective analysis is done on the RSR15 dataset.

Analysis of Emotional Content in Indian Political Speeches

Emotions play an essential role in public speaking. The emotional content of speech has the power to influence minds. As such, we present an analysis of the emotional content of politicians speech in the Indian political scenario. We investigate the emotional content present in the speeches of politicians using an Attention based CNN+LSTM network. Experimental evaluations on a dataset of eight Indian politicians shows how politicians incorporate emotions in their speeches to strike a chord with the masses. An analysis of the voting share received along with victory margin and their relation to emotional content in speech of the politicians is also presented.