Speech enhancement system using the multi-band coherence function and spectral subtraction method

Inkyu Oh; Insung Lee

doi:10.7776/ASK.2019.38.4.406

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Speech enhancement system using the multi-band coherence function and spectral subtraction method 다중 주파수 밴드 간섭함수와 스펙트럼 차감법을 이용한 음성 향상 시스템

31 July 2019. pp. 406-413

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Abstract

This paper proposes a speech enhancement method through the process of combining the gain function with spectrum subtraction method in the two microphone array with close spacing. A speech enhancement method that uses a gain function estimated by the SNR (Signal-to Noise Ratio) based on the multi frequency band coherence function causes the performance degradation in high correlation between input noises of two channels. A new speech enhancement method is proposed where the weighted gain function is used by combining the gain function from the spectral subtraction. The performance evaluation of the proposed method was shown by comparison with PESQ (Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality) value which is an objective quality evaluation test provided by the ITU-T (International Telecommunications Union Telecommunication). In the PESQ tests, the maximum 0.217 of PESQ value is improved in the various background noise environments.

Keywords

Coherence function

Noise suppression

Spectral subtraction

Speech enhancement

Multi-band

본 논문은 두 개의 마이크로폰 환경에서 다중 주파수 대역 이득함수와 주파수 차감법을 결합하여 배경잡음을 억제하는 방법을 제안하였다. 다중 주파수 대역 신호대잡음비 추정을 통해 이득 함수를 얻는 음성 향상 방법은 두 채널 간 잡음신호의 상관성이 큰 경우 잡음 제거 성능이 떨어지는 단점을 가지고 있다. 하나의 채널 에서 스펙트럼 차감법을 통해 얻은 이득함수와 간섭함수 기반의 신호대잡음비 추정을 통해서 얻은 이득함수를 결합하여 가중된 이득함수를 사용하는 음성 향상 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 ITU-T(International Telecommunications Union Telecommunication)의 객관적인 품질 평가 방법인 PESQ(Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality) 시험과 스펙트로그램을 사용하여 성능 평가 되어졌고 PESQ시험에서 최대 MOS 0.217의 음질 향상을 얻을 수 있었다.

키워드

간섭함수

잡음억제

스펙트럼 차감

음질 향상

다중 밴드

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Publisher :The Acoustical Society of Korea
Publisher(Ko) :한국음향학회
Journal Title :The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
Journal Title(Ko) :한국음향학회지
Volume : 38
No :4
Pages :406-413
Received Date : 2019-02-25
Revised Date : 2019-04-16
Accepted Date : 2019-05-17
DOI :https://doi.org/10.7776/ASK.2019.38.4.406

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea ISSN:1225-4428(Print) 2287-3775(Online) 한국음향학회지

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