INTERSPEECH 2011 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Florence, Italy August 27-31. 2011

Speech Enhancement Using Masking Properties in Adverse Environments

Atanu Saha, Tetsuya Shimamura

Saitama University, Japan

In this paper, we propose a speech enhancement method by exploiting masking properties of human auditory system. The masking properties are exploited to calculate a masking threshold. The spectral components which lie above the threshold are audible to human listeners. These audible spectral components in the proposed method are suppressed as a predefined attenuation factor of the original noise. The evaluation is conducted in the experiments. The experimental results show that the proposed method provides significant performance compared to the conventional approaches.

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Bibliographic reference.  Saha, Atanu / Shimamura, Tetsuya (2011): "Speech enhancement using masking properties in adverse environments", In INTERSPEECH-2011, 1213-1216.