Enhancement of noisy reverberant speech using polynomial matrix eigenvalue decomposition
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Author(s)
Neo, Vincent
Evers, Christine
Naylor, Patrick
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Speech enhancement is important for applications such as telecommunications, hearing aids, automatic speech recognition and voice-controlled systems. Enhancement algorithms aim to reduce interfering noise and reverberation while minimizing any speech distortion. In this work for speech enhancement, we propose to use polynomial matrices to model the spatial, spectral and temporal correlations between the speech signals received by a microphone array and polynomial matrix eigenvalue decomposition (PEVD) to decorrelate in space, time and frequency simultaneously. We then propose a blind and unsupervised PEVD-based speech enhancement algorithm. Simulations and informal listening examples involving diverse reverberant and noisy environments have shown that our method can jointly suppress noise and reverberation, thereby achieving speech enhancement without introducing processing artefacts into the enhanced signal.
Date Issued
2021-10-15
Date Acceptance
2021-10-07
Citation
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2021, 29, pp.3255-3266
ISSN
2329-9290
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Start Page
3255
End Page
3266
Journal / Book Title
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
Volume
29
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9576653
Grant Number
EP/P001017/1
EP/S035842/1
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021-10-28