Title
An Optimized Fixed Equalizer for Speech Enhancement
Abstract
This paper proposes a new method to design the fixed single-channel equalizer parameters based on perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) and the short-time objective intelligibility (STOI). The proposed equalizer does not require the need for noise estimation nor a voice activity detector. The fixed weightings are obtained by a training process containing a set of training data. A multi-objective optimization problem was formulated with the PESQ and STOI as the objective measures, which results in a set of candidate solutions via the Pareto optimality. Experimental results demonstrate improvements in PESQ and STOI, and the trade-off between these two measures is well defined in a set of Pareto optimal solutions to allow flexible adjustment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s00034-022-02051-1
Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Equalizer, Speech enhancement, STOI, PESQ
Journal
41
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
0278-081X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
16
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
He, Qi100.34
Low, Siow Yong200.34
Yiu, Ka Fai Cedric300.34