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Noise reduction of speech signal using bayesian state-space Kalman filter

Sarafnia, A ; Sharif University of Technology | 2013

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/APCC.2013.6766008
  3. Publisher: IEEE Computer Society , 2013
  4. Abstract:
  5. The noise exists in almost all environments such as cellular mobile telephone systems. Various types of noise can be introduced such as speech additive noise which is the main factor of degradation in perceived speech quality. At some applications for example at the receiver of a telecommunication system, the direct value of interfering noise is not available and there is just access to noisy speech. In these cases the noise cannot be cancelled totally but it may be possible to reduce the noise in a sensible way by utilizing the statistics of the noise and speech signal. In this paper the proposed method for noise reduction is Bayesian recursive state-space Kalman filter, which is a method for estimation of a speech signal from its noisy version. It utilizes the prior probability distributions of the signal and noise processes, which are assumed to be zero-mean Gaussian processes, to implement the noise reduction. The function of Kalman filter is assessed for SNR values of -5 dB and 5 dB respectively. Evaluation results indicate that this method of noise reduction yields better speech perceived quality and efficient results
  6. Keywords:
  7. Bayesian Method ; Kalman filte ; Noise reduction ; Speech enhancement ; State-space model ; Bayesian networks ; Cellular telephone systems ; Kalman filters ; Probability distributions ; Signal to noise ratio ; Bayesian methods ; Cellular mobile ; Evaluation results ; Gaussian Processes ; Perceived quality ; Reduction yield ; State-space modeling ; Noise abatement
  8. Source: 2013 19th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, APCC 2013 ; August , 2013 , Pages 545-549 ; 9781467360500 (ISBN)
  9. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6766008