A Spectral Conversion Approach to Feature Denoising and Speech Enhancement

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Spectral conversion
denoising
speech enhancement
spectral features
Kalman Filter
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Mouchtaris, Athanasios
Mueller, Paul
Tsakalides, P.
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In this paper we demonstrate that spectral conversion can be successfully applied to the speech enhancement problem as a feature denoising method. The enhanced spectral features can be used in the context of the Kalman filter for estimating the clean speech signal. In essence, instead of estimating the clean speech features and the clean speech signal using the iterative Kalman filter, we show that is more efficient to initially estimate the clean speech features from the noisy speech features using spectral conversion (using a training speech corpus) and then apply the standard Kalman filter. Our results show an average improvement compared to the iterative Kalman filter that can reach 6 dB in the average segmental output Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), in low input SNR's.

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2005-09-01
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Published in Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology 2005 (Interspeech 2005), pages 2057-2060.
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