EUROSPEECH 2003 - INTERSPEECH 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Geneva, Switzerland September 1-4, 2003

Speech Enhancement Using Weighting Function Based on the Variance of Wavelet Coefficients

Ching-Ta Lu, Hsiao-Chuan Wang

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

There are few works on the problem of heavy noise corruption in wavelet-based speech enhancement. In this paper, a new method is introduced to adapt the weighting function for wavelet coefficients (WCs) in each subband. The idea is based on that the change of WC variance in speech-dominated frames is larger than the change of WC variance in noise-dominated frames. We can define a weighting function for WCs in each subband so that WCs are preserved in speech-dominated frames and reduced in noise-dominated frames. Then a weighting function in terms of WC's variance is derived. The experimental results show that the proposed method is more robust than that of SNR adjusted speech enhancement system.

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Bibliographic reference.  Lu, Ching-Ta / Wang, Hsiao-Chuan (2003): "Speech enhancement using weighting function based on the variance of wavelet coefficients", In EUROSPEECH-2003, 521-524.