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Multichannel Speech Enhancement Based on Generalized Gamma Prior Distribution with Its Online Adaptive Estimation

Tran HUY DAT, Kazuya TAKEDA, Fumitada ITAKURA

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We present a multichannel speech enhancement method based on MAP speech spectral magnitude estimation using a generalized gamma model of speech prior distribution, where the model parameters are adapted from actual noisy speech in a frame-by-frame manner. The utilization of a more general prior distribution with its online adaptive estimation is shown to be effective for speech spectral estimation in noisy environments. Furthermore, the multi-channel information in terms of cross-channel statistics are shown to be useful to better adapt the prior distribution parameters to the actual observation, resulting in better performance of speech enhancement algorithm. We tested the proposed algorithm in an in-car speech database and obtained significant improvements of the speech recognition performance, particularly under non-stationary noise conditions such as music, air-conditioner and open window.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E91-D No.3 pp.439-447
Publication Date
2008/03/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1093/ietisy/e91-d.3.439
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Robust Speech Processing in Realistic Environments)
Category
Speech Enhancement

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