Single-channel online enhancement of speech corrupted by reverberation and noise
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Journal Article
Abstract
This paper proposes an online single-channel speech enhancement method designed to improve the quality of speech degraded by reverberation and noise. Based on an autoregressive model for the reverberation power and on a hidden Markov model for clean speech production, a Bayesian filtering formulation of the problem is derived and online joint estimation of the acoustic parameters and mean speech, reverberation, and noise powers is obtained in mel-frequency bands. From these estimates, a real-valued spectral gain is derived and spectral enhancement is applied in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. The method yields state-of-the-art performance and greatly reduces the effects of reverberation and noise while improving speech quality and preserving speech intelligibility in challenging acoustic environments.
Date Issued
2017-03-01
Date Acceptance
2016-12-15
Citation
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2017, 25 (3), pp.572-587
ISSN
2329-9290
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Start Page
572
End Page
587
Journal / Book Title
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
Volume
25
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
© 2016 IEEE. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Commission of the European Communities
Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7795155
Grant Number
EP/M026698/1
PITN-GA-2012-316969
Subjects
Dereverberation
Speech
Bayesian
Single-channel
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2016-12-22