Noise reduction for automatic speech recognition

Details Noise reduction for automatic speech recognition Noise reduction for automatic speech recognition

2006-11-14

2008-05-20

Hudspeth, David (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

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C704S233000

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07376558

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is a noise reduction method for automatic speech recognitionl. A noise reduction method for automatic speech recognition, including: computing a magnitude spectrum of a noisy speech containing a clean speech to be recognized and noise affecting the clean speech; computing a power spectrum of the noisy speech; computing an estimate of a power spectrum of the clean speech; computing an estimate of a power spectrum of the noise; computing an estimate of an a priori signal-to-noise ratio as a function of the estimate of the power spectrum of the clean speech and the estimate of the power spectrum of the noise; computing an estimate of an a posteriori signal-to-noise ratio as a function of the power spectrum of the noisy speech and the estimate of the power spectrum of the noise; computing an attenuation gain as a function of the estimate of the a priori signal-to-noise ratio and the estimate of the a posteriori signal-to-noise ratio; and computing an estimate of a magnitude spectrum of the clean speech as a function of the magnitude spectrum of the noisy speech and the attenuation gain. Computing the estimates of the a priori and the a posteriori signal-to-noise ratios includes computing a noise weighting factor for weighting the estimate of the power spectrum of the noise in the computation of the estimates of the a priori and the a posteriori signal-to-noise ratios; computing a spectral flooring factor for flooring the estimates of the a priori and the a posteriori signal-to-noise ratios; and computing the estimates of the a priori and the a posteriori signal-to-noise ratios also as a function of the noise weighting factor and the spectral flooring factor.

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