System for suppressing rain noise

Details System for suppressing rain noise System for suppressing rain noise

2011-05-24

2011-05-24

Opsasnick, Michael N (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

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ABSTRACT:
A voice enhancement logic improves the perceptual quality of a processed signal. The voice enhancement system includes a noise detector and a noise attenuator. The noise detector detects and models the noise associated with rain. The noise attenuator dampens or reduces the rain noise from a signal to improve the intelligibility of an unvoiced, a fully voiced, or a mixed voice segment.

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