Noise-robust reverberation time estimation using spectral decay distributions with reduced computational cost
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Author(s)
Eaton, James
Gaubitch, Nikolay D
Naylor, Patrick A
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Reverberation Time (T60) is an important measure of the acoustic properties of a room. It can provide information about the acoustic environment, the intelligibility, and quality of speech recorded in the room, and help improve the performance of speech processing algorithms with reverberant speech. Where the acoustic impulse response of the room is not available, the T60 must be estimated non-intrusively from reverberant speech. State-of-the-art non-intrusive T60 estimators have been shown to be strongly biased in the presence of noise. We describe a novel T60 estimation algorithm based on spectral decay distributions that provides robustness to additive noise for a range of realistic noise types for signal-to-noise ratios in the range 0 to 35 dB and T60s between 200 and 950 ms. The proposed method also has much reduced computational cost.
Date Issued
2013-05
Citation
Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013, pp.161-165
ISSN
1520-6149
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
161
End Page
165
Journal / Book Title
Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
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Source
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Acoustics
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Engineering
speech enhancement
SNR
reverberation time
Speech dereverberation
Algorithm
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2013-05-26
Finish Date
2013-05-31
Coverage Spatial
Vancouver, Canada