Model-Based Speech Enhancement in the Modulation Domain
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Wang, Yu
Brookes, DM
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
This paper presents an algorithm for modulationdomain speech enhancement using a Kalman filter. The proposed estimator jointly models the estimated dynamics of the spectral amplitudes of speech and noise to obtain an MMSE estimation of the speech amplitude spectrum with the assumption that the speech and noise are additive in the complex domain. In order to include the dynamics of noise amplitudes with those of speech amplitudes, we propose a statistical “Gaussring” model that comprises a mixture of Gaussians whose centres lie in a circle on the complex plane. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated using the perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) measure, segmental SNR (segSNR) measure and shorttime objective intelligibility (STOI) measure. For speech quality measures, the proposed algorithm is shown to give a consistent improvement over a wide range of SNRs when compared to competitive algorithms. Speech recognition experiments also show that the Gaussring model based algorithm performs well for two types of noise.
Date Issued
2017-12-25
Date Acceptance
2017-12-18
Citation
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2017, 26 (3), pp.580-594
ISSN
2329-9304
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
580
End Page
594
Journal / Book Title
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
Volume
26
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Acoustics
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Engineering
Speech enhancement
modulation-domain Kalman filter
statistical modelling
minimum mean-square error (MMSE) estimator
SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE ESTIMATOR
AUDIO SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT
SQUARE ERROR ESTIMATION
NOISE
INTELLIGIBILITY
SUPPRESSION
RECEPTION
CHANNELS
QUALITY
PRIORS
Publication Status
Published