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    Improved a priori SNR estimation with application in Log-MMSE speech estimation

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    Authors
    Höglund, N.
    Nordholm, Sven
    Date
    2009
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Höglund, N. and Nordholm, S. 2009. Improved a priori SNR estimation with application in Log-MMSE speech estimation, pp. 189-192.
    Source Title
    IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics
    DOI
    10.1109/ASPAA.2009.5346478
    ISBN
    9781424436798
    School
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8105
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    • Curtin Research Publications
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    A speech enhancement method utilizing the harmonic structure of speech is presented. The method is an extension of the well known minimum mean square error log-spectral amplitude estimator(Log MMSE) method for speech enhancement. The improvement lies specifically on a priori SNR estimation by utilizing harmonic structure of speech. The method is based on a conditional averaging operation over adjacent frequency bands for each processed data block. The actual frequency bands used in the conditional averaging is determined by a pitch detector. Thus voiced segments are averaged over frequency according to the pitch and the corresponding harmonic structure of voiced speech. Non-voiced segments are averaged over frequency according to a random number depending on the pitch value. The result is overall better SNR and SNRSeg values in white noise over the standard Log MMSE reference method. In babble noise, the estimator rendered similar SNR and SNRSeg values as the Log-MMSE reference method. Subjectively the residue background noise sounded more natural when using the suggested method. ©2009 IEEE.

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