Method and apparatus for suppressing background music or noise f

Details Method and apparatus for suppressing background music or noise f Method and apparatus for suppressing background music or noise f

1996-02-02

1998-12-08

Kuntz, Curtis

Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices

Monitoring of sound

381 66, 381 94, 395 225, 395 226, 395 227, H04R 2900

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ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for removing the effect of background music or noise from speech input to a speech recognizer so as to improve recognition accuracy has been devised. Samples of pure music or noise related to the background music or noise that corrupts the speech input are utilized to reduce the effect of the background in speech recognition. The pure music and noise samples can be obtained in a variety of ways. The music or noise corrupted speech input is segmented in overlapping segments and is then processed in two phases: first, the best matching pure music or noise segment is aligned with each speech segment; then a linear filter is built for each segment to remove the effect of background music or noise from the speech input and the overlapping segments are averaged to improve the signal to noise ratio. The resulting acoustic output can then be fed to a speech recognizer.

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