Speech Enhancement using Source Features and Group Delay Analysis

Author

Prasanna, S. R Mahadeva ; Moorthy, P. Krishna ; Yegnanarayana, B.

Author_Institution

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati-781039, India, Email: prasanna@iitg.ernet.in

fYear

2005

fDate

11-13 Dec. 2005

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

23

Abstract

A method is proposed for enhancement of speech degraded by background noise and reverberation, which is collected simultaneously over several microphones. Each microphone signal is processed by the Linear Prediction (LP) analysis to extract the Hilbert envelope of the LP residual. The time-delays are estimated and the Hilbert envelopes of the LP residuals from all the microphones are added coherently. The coherently-added Hilbert envelope is processed by the the group delay analysis to derive a weight function. The LP residual of the coherently-added speech signal is multiplied with the weight function to produce a modi.ed LP residual in which the excitation part of speech is enhanced. The speech signal synthesized from the modi.ed LP residual is found to be perceptually enhanced signi.cantly.

Keywords

source features and group delay analysis; speech enhancement; Background noise; Degradation; Delay; Microphones; Reverberation; Signal analysis; Signal processing; Speech analysis; Speech enhancement; Speech synthesis; source features and group delay analysis; speech enhancement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INDICON, 2005 Annual IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9503-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDCON.2005.1590115

Filename

1590115