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- Title
Regression-Based Noise Modeling for Speech Signal Processing.
- Authors
de Abreu, Caio Cesar Enside; Duarte, Marco Aparecido Queiroz; de Oliveira, Bruno Rodrigues; Filho, Jozue Vieira; Villarreal, Francisco
- Abstract
Speech processing systems are very important in different applications involving speech and voice quality such as automatic speech recognition, forensic phonetics and speech enhancement, among others. In most of them, the acoustic environmental noise is added to the original signal, decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the speech quality by consequence. Therefore, estimating noise is one of the most important steps in speech processing whether to reduce it before processing or to design robust algorithms. In this paper, a new approach to estimate noise from speech signals is presented and its effectiveness is tested in the speech enhancement context. For this purpose, partial least squares (PLS) regression is used to model the acoustic environment (AE) and a Wiener filter based on a priori SNR estimation is implemented to evaluate the proposed approach. Six noise types are used to create seven acoustically modeled noises. The basic idea is to consider the AE model to identify the noise type and estimate its power to be used in a speech processing system. Speech signals processed using the proposed method and classical noise estimators are evaluated through objective measures. Results show that the proposed method produces better speech quality than state-of-the-art noise estimators, enabling it to be used in real-time applications in the field of robotic, telecommunications and acoustic analysis.
- Subjects
SPEECH processing systems; SPEECH enhancement; AUTOMATIC speech recognition; SIGNAL processing; SIGNAL-to-noise ratio; NOISE; ACOUSTIC models; ACOUSTIC emission
- Publication
Fluctuation & Noise Letters, 2021, Vol 20, Issue 3, pN.PAG
- ISSN
0219-4775
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S021947752150022X