A generalized subspace approach for enhancing speech corrupted by colored noise
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- 28 July 2003
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
- Vol. 11 (4), 334-341
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tsa.2003.814458
Abstract
A generalized subspace approach is proposed for enhancement of speech corrupted by colored noise. A nonunitary transform, based on the simultaneous diagonalization of the clean speech and noise covariance matrices, is used to project the noisy signal onto a signal-plus-noise subspace and a noise subspace. The clean signal is estimated by nulling the signal components in the noise subspace and retaining the components in the signal subspace. The applied transform has built-in prewhitening and can therefore be used in general for colored noise. The proposed approach is shown to be a generalization of the approach proposed by Y. Ephraim and H.L. Van Trees (see ibid., vol.3, p.251-66, 1995) for white noise. Two estimators are derived based on the nonunitary transform, one based on time-domain constraints and one based on spectral domain constraints. Objective and subjective measures demonstrate improvements over other subspace-based methods when tested with TIMIT sentences corrupted with speech-shaped noise and multi-talker babble.Keywords
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