Title
Speech Enhancement Based On Wavelet Thresholding The Multitaper Spectrum
Abstract
It is well known that the "musical noise" encountered in most frequency domain speech enhancement algorithms is partially due to the large variance estimates of the spectra. To address this issue, we propose in this paper the use of low-variance spectral estimators based on wavelet thresholding the multitaper spectra for speech enhancement. A short-time spectral amplitude estimator is derived which incorporates the wavelet-thresholded multitaper spectra. Listening tests showed that the use of multitaper spectrum estimation combined with wavelet thresholding suppressed the musical noise and yielded better quality than the subspace and MMSE algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/TSA.2003.819949
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
multitaper method, musical noise, power spectrum estimation, speech enhancement, wavelet thresholding
Frequency domain,Noise reduction,Speech enhancement,Speech processing,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Multitaper,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Gaussian noise,Wavelet transform,Estimator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
1
1063-6676
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
78
4.63
21
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Y. Hu1109869.42
Philipos C. Loizou299171.00