Noise reduction by paired-microphones using spectral subtraction

This paper proposes a method of noise reduction by paired microphones as a front-end processor for speech recognition systems. This method estimates noise using a subtractive microphone array and subtracts them from the noisy speech signal using spectral subtraction (SS). Since this method can estimate noise analytically and frame by frame, it is easy to estimate noise not depending on these acoustic properties. Therefore, this method can also reduce non-stationary noise, for example sudden noise when a door has just closed, which cannot be reduced by other SS methods. The results of computer simulations and experiments in a real environment show that this method can reduce LPC log spectral envelope distortions