Title :
Reduction of musical noise generated by spectral subtraction by combining wavelet packet transform and wiener filtering
Author :
Ben Jebara, Sofia ; Benazza-Benyahia, Amel ; Ben Khelifa, Abdelsalem
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mathematics, Signal and Communications, Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis (SUP´COM) Route Raoued, Km 3.5, Cité El-Ghazala, 2083, Tunisia
Abstract :
This paper presents a new method for musical noise attenuation induced by spectral subtraction. The proposed technique consists in combining a wavelet packet decomposition with Wiener filtering. Simulations demonstrate how this artifact is reduced without affecting the original speech intelligibility.
Keywords :
Noise; Noise measurement; Spectrogram; Speech; Speech enhancement; Wavelet packets; Wiener filters;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing Conference, 2000 10th European
Conference_Location :
Tampere, Finland
Print_ISBN :
978-952-1504-43-3