| Conference/Proceedings | INTERSPEECH 2004 - ICSLP |
| Start date | 04.10.2004 |
| End date | 08.10.2004 |
| Address | Jeju Island, Korea |
| Author(s) | Hyoung-Gook Kim, Thomas Sikora |
| Title | Speech Enhancement based on Smoothing of Spectral Noise Floor |
| Abstract | This paper presents robust speech enhancement using noise estimation based on smoothing of spectral noise floor (SNF) for nonstationary noise environments. The spectral gain function is obtained by well-known log-spectral amplitude (LSA) estimation criterion associated with the speech presence uncertainty. The noise estimate is given by averaging actual spectral power values, using a smoothing parameter that depends on smoothing of spectral noise floor. The noise estimator is very simple but achieves a good tracking capability for a nonstationary noise. Its enhanced speech is free of musical tones and reverberation artifacts and sounds very natural compared to methods using other short-time spectrum attenuation techniques. The performance is measured by the segmental signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the speech/speaker recognition accuracy and the speaker change detection rate for the audio segmentation using MFCC-features (Melscale Frequency Cepstral Coefficients) in comparison to other single microphone noise reduction methods. |
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