A Spectral Conversion Approach to the Iterative Wiener Filter for Speech Enhancement

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iterative wiener filter
spectral conversion
speech enhancement
speech conversion
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Mouchtaris, Athanasios
Mueller, Paul
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The Iterative Wiener Filter (IWF) for speech enhancement in additive noise is an effective and simple algorithm to implement. One of its main disadvantages is the lack of proper criteria for convergence, which has been shown to introduce severe degradation to the estimated clean signal. Here, an improvement of the IWF algorithm is proposed, when additional information is available for the signal to be enhanced. If a small amount of clean speech data is available, spectral conversion techniques can be applied for esimating the clean short-term spectral envelope of the speech signal from the noisy signal, with significant noise reduction. Our results show an average improvement compared to the original IWF that can reach 2 dB in the segmental output Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), in low input SNR's, which is perceptually significant.

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2004-06-27
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Copyright 2004 IEEE. Reprinted from Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004), pages 1971-1974. Publisher URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=30346&page=8 This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of the University of Pennsylvania's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@ieee.org. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.
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