Speech Enhancement Using Modulation-Domain Kalman Filtering with Active Speech Level Normalized Log-Spectrum Global Priors
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Author(s)
Dionelis, N
Brookes
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
We describe a single-channel speech enhancement algorithm that is based on modulation-domain Kalman filtering that tracks the inter-frame time evolution of the speech logpower spectrum in combination with the long-term average speech log-spectrum. We use offline-trained log-power spectrum global priors incorporated in the Kalman filter prediction and update steps for enhancing noise suppression. In particular, we train and utilize Gaussian mixture model priors for speech in the log-spectral domain that are normalized with respect to the active speech level. The Kalman filter update step uses the log-power spectrum global priors together with the local priors obtained from the Kalman filter prediction step. The logspectrum Kalman filtering algorithm, which uses the theoretical phase factor distribution and improves the modeling of the modulation features, is evaluated in terms of speech quality. Different algorithm configurations, dependent on whether global priors and/or Kalman filter noise tracking are used, are compared in various noise types.
Date Issued
2017-10-26
Date Acceptance
2017-08-01
Citation
2017 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2017
ISSN
2076-1465
Publisher
IEEE
Journal / Book Title
2017 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
Copyright Statement
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Source
25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2017-08-28
Finish Date
2017-09-02
Coverage Spatial
Kos Island, Greece