TITLE:
Single-Channel Speech Enhancement Using Critical-Band Rate Scale Based Improved Multi-Band Spectral Subtraction
AUTHORS:
Navneet Upadhyay, Abhijit Karmakar
KEYWORDS:
Single-Channel; Speech Enhancement; Critical-Band Rate Scale; Spectral Over-Subtraction; Adaptive Noise Estimation; Objective Measure; Speech Spectrograms
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Signal and Information Processing,
Vol.4 No.3,
August
15,
2013
ABSTRACT: This paper
addresses the problem of single-channel speech enhancement in the adverse environment. The critical-band rate scale based on improved multi-band spectral subtraction is investigated in this study
for enhancement of single-channel speech. In this work, the whole speech spectrum is
divided into different non-uniformly spaced frequency bands in accordance with the critical-band rate scale of the psycho-acoustic model and the spectral over-subtraction is carried-out separately in each band. In
addition, for the estimation of the noise from
each band, the adaptive noise estimation approach is
used and does not
require explicit speech silence detection. The noise is estimated and updated by
adaptively smoothing the
noisy signal power in each band. The
smoothing parameter is controlled by a-posteriori signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). For the performance analysis of the proposed
algorithm, the objective measures, such as, SNR, segmental SNR, and perceptual
evaluations of the speech quality are conducted for the variety of noises
at different levels of SNRs. The speech spectrogram and objective evaluations of the proposed algorithm are compared with other standard speech enhancement
algorithms and proved that the musical
structure of the remnant noise and
background noise is better suppressed by the proposed algorithm.